Empire of the Sun is the new psychedelic project led by Australians Luke Steele (of The Sleepy Jackson) and Nick Littlemore (P'Nau). Exotic, gaudy, and lavish, Empire Of The Sun brings together these two unlikely collaborators from Australian pop, and so began a friendship which Luke describes as "this fireball of electricity". Walking On A Dream is a bold, visionary and brilliant album, which manages to sound exhilaratingly contemporary, audaciously forward-looking, yet also curiously archaic all at o...   [ read more ]

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Spaced-out pop maestro; blue-eyeliner wearing rocknroll genius; Australia's answer to Brian Wilson - Luke Steele - aka The Sleepy Jackson - has already been called all these things and more. No wonder he lives in the most isolated city on Earth. Anywhere else, with all these critical garlands, he could end up suffocating. I like the peace and quiet which comes with living in Perth laughs Luke down a late night phone line. It suits me. Theres lots of space, theres no one around. I can walk down the main roa...   [ read more ]

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Nations by the River began in a derelict parking lot in Newcastle, during the Gelbison/The Sleepy Jackson tour of early 2003. It just so happened that after all the equipment from that night's show had been packed away and everyone was ready to head back down to Sydney, no one could find the keys to the tour-van. Escaping the mounting tension of the group, Luke Steele (The Sleepy Jackson) and Edo Kahn (Gelbison) ventured off into the car park with two guitars and gave birth to the first Nations songs. Mean...   [ read more ]

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