Empire of the Sun's debut offering of experimental electro-pop and dance-rock is very well-timed, hitting the market just as the buzz surrounding MGMT's Oracular Spectacular has started to recede. Like those similarly colorful Americans, Empire of the Sun's two members embrace the glam lifestyle in spirit and song, wearing festive costumes in concert and festooning their music with oddball flourishes, androgynous lyrics, and a general sense of theatricality that borders on schizophrenia. Walking on a Dream runs an interesting gamut, sampling equally from hip-hop ('Swordfish Hotkiss Night'), arty synth pop ('Standing on the Shore'), and all the stops in between. With its programmed percussion and futuristic keyboards, the music sounds slightly more indebted to Pnau than the Sleepy Jackson; nevertheless, Luke Steele (the brains behind the latter band) takes center stage on the bulk of these songs, speak-singing in a childish tenor one minute and cooing like a lovestruck female the next. The aforementioned MGMT followed a similar path with their own debut -- a fact that simply cannot be emphasized enough, given the vast similarities between both records -- but while MGMT took cues from the likes of David Bowie and Prince, Empire of the Sun's fusion is more reminiscent of worldbeat and fantasy movie soundtracks. The outlandish cover art follows suit, as Steele and Nick Littlemore (dressed up in bizarre Star Wars-styled regalia) are flanked by a decorative elephant, a tiger, and what appears to be the skyline of Atlantis. Like the music it promotes, the cover art is purposely ludicrous, but listeners who have a palette for such whimsy should walk away happy.
Walking on a Dream (Kaskade Remix) is a remix of Walking on a Dream by Empire of the Sun (2008) Walking on a Dream (Joey Negro Remix). Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream (2009) Deluxe Version 2CD 320 Kbs.rar. Facts about “Walking on a Dream” This is the title track of and lead single from Empire of the Sun’s debut album. The track was released by Capitol Records and EMI Group Limited on 3 October 2008. The writers of the song are Empire of the Sun’s Nick Littlemore and Luke Steele.
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'A good song can take you to a place that I don’t think anything else on Planet Earth can.'
Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore deliver on that belief within the first 30 seconds of their debut album as Empire of the Sun.
There's a gently striding beat, elegant guitar line and Steele’s uniquely authoritative voice feels transportive.
He's like a captain calling for last passengers as he sings, 'Standing on the shore, waiting for the ship to call, there’s something in the way I move that keeps them on their own'.
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You get the sense of having being beamed to the edge of a future landscape, the sky and the scenery pulsates with excitement and expectation.
The album's title track 'Walking on a Dream' takes us to our next location, a warmer place filled with peace, joy and acceptance in this surreal world.
'Half Mast' and 'We Are The People' hold onto love and continue our adventures sailing on an updraft, and 'Delta Bay's' glam stomping energy feels like a night out spinning wildly and gleefully out of control.
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From the outset there was purpose and intent in the design of the progression of the story and adventures throughout Walking on a Dream.
The album arrived in 2008, but really Littlemore and Steele had been plugging away at their collaboration for many years prior.
They first met in 2000 and knew straight away they had something special together, but were also distracted and focused on the releases of their other groups.
Littlemore’s Pnau had just released Sambanova and was working on the follow-up and Steele’s band The Sleepy Jackson was on a roll releasing successive EPs building their songwriting and sound as a band, on the way to making their classic, Lovers album.
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They also couldn’t quite work out how to harness what they had together as Empire of the Sun. But from the opulence of the band name alone, you get the sense that there would be something of a grand scale.
The pair admitted they had some growing to do as individuals before they could lock in on each other as co-creators on Empire of the Sun.
'I think our first years, we sort of sorted through the whole …I guess we were both kinda young, it was not so much jealousy, but I think we were both fighting through those things you deal with as new artists,' Steele explained to Richard Kingsmill in 2008.
'We were both headstrong young people and passionate and that can get confused at times,' Littlemore added.
'I think what’s been great is that we’ve gone through crap in the industry and we’ve come through that and realised what we had done initially was make great music and we needed to pick that back up and re-ignite that flame.'
It helped that they had a unified mindset in their approach as Littlemore explained.
'Surrender and positivity are the two words we carried with us through the record …as soon as we would come in and try and make something, everything we would accept, and you just keep accepting things until you build a monolith.'
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The results are wondrous and indicative of a very special connection between the two musicians.
'I think chemistry is very rare especially in a songwriting,' Steele told triple j. 'There’s a lot of musicians but not a lot of us find the chemistry. Nick had something which I knew nothing about which is great production and also lyric writing, Nick's a great poet.'
Littlemore had plenty of praise for his partner.
'I mean Luke’s a genius, I think that’s quite well known, melodically and the just the way he operates, we’re quite similar, its very much just shoot from the hip…with Luke, he just hears melody unlike anyone else so if you had that opportunity to work with someone of his calibre, it’s hard to not do something great.'
When asked what they each get from this project that they hadn’t got with their respective bands, the answer was conclusive.
'The greatest record of our lives,' Littlemore said.
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'It’s easily the strongest thing I’ve ever been a part of.
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'It can stand up with the most minimal of elements. It doesn’t need stacks and stacks of production, you hear it on the radio and it’s just a single vocal of Luke’s because he doesn’t need to double track and harmonise. Yes, he can do that incredibly well, but his voice singly just coming out straight as God intended it is incredible.
'I don’t know if we’ll do a record as good as this cause it just feels so magical.'