Empire of the Sun - Walking On A Dream
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Album Review
Release date: 13 March 2009
Album Review: Empire Of The Sun
Walking On A Dream
Facts about this album: Empire Of The Sun refer to their fans as ‘Empyreans’. As well as his day job in Pnau, Nick Littlemore of Empire Of The Sun used to be in a band called Teenager with one Pip Brown, aka Ladyhawke. Empire Of The Sun singer Luke Steele’s daughter is named, adorably/insanely, Sunny Tiger. Album Review: OK, let’s just spear the elephant in the room:...
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- Standing On The Shore
- Walking On A Dream
- Half Mast
- We Are The People
- Delta Bay
- Country
- The World
- Swordfish Hotkiss Night
- Tiger By My Side
- Without You
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Empire of the Sun - Walking On A Dream: Wikipedia Album Entry
Empire of the Sun's debut offering of electro-pop experiments and dancefloor daydreams is well-timed indeed, arriving just as the buzz surrounding MGMT's Oracular Spectacular has started to recede. Like those similarly colorful Americans, Empire of the Sun embrace the glam lifestyle in spirit and song, wearing whimsically festive costumes in concert and festooning their music with oddball flourishes, androgynous lyrics, and a general sense of theatrical 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 retro-futuristic keyboards, the music sounds slightly more indebted to Pnau than the Sleepy Jackson; nevertheless, Luke Steele 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 prowling 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 sated.
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Empire of the Sun - Walking On A Dream Lyrics
Empire of the Sun - Tiger By My Side Lyrics
Dragon lips I say goodbye
But baby donât you cry
Be too cool to ever be
With a tiger by your side
Empire of the Sun - We Are The People Lyrics
We can remember swimming in December.
Heading for the city lights in 1975.
We share in each other.
Nearer than farther.
Empire of the Sun - Half Mast Lyrics
Come on now can we talk about it like we used to talk about
Hotel in the hills with a carousel
Farmhouse in the front a tractor in the lounge
Empire of the Sun - Breakdown Lyrics
You gotta let up
Hallucinate, dream space
Levity, shadow play
Empire of the Sun - Without You Lyrics
No
No shapes at all
Nothing real or artificial
No energy or heat
Empire of the Sun - World Lyrics
i asked the world a question
when did you begin ?
i asked him of his problems
when did you go wrong ?
Empire of the Sun - Standing On The Shore Lyrics
Standing on the shore
Waiting for the ship in call
There's something in the way I move
That keeps them on their own
Empire of the Sun - Delta Bay Lyrics
When about midnight roosters at the hip tight
Played the blues with Cool Kite
Shot a round with Heather Smite
Mixed my drinks with Mia Town
Empire of the Sun - Walking On The Dream Lyrics
Walking on a dream
How can I explain
Talking to myself
Will I see again
Empire of the Sun - Swordfish Hotkiss Night Lyrics
Got you everything I wanted when I wasn't sitting on it
Got you everything I wanted when I wasn't sitting on it
Got you everything I wanted when I wasn't sitting on it
Got you everything I wanted when I wasn't sitting on it
