New Empire Of The Sun Video - "Walking On A Dream"
Empire Of The Sun is the Australian duo of the Sleepy Jackson's Luke Steele and PNAU's Nick Littlemore. They have a self-titled debut out this fall and a video for "Walking On A Dream" out now. Fitting with the band's moniker, the clip for the sugary love song ("I can feel it / When two people become one") was shot in Shanghai. The song itself includes a pretty catchy pop hook ("We are always running for the thrill of it thrill of it / Always pushing up the hill searching for the thrill of it"), the video plenty of dramatic tongue-in-cheek mugging from the twosome.
Feel free to take the track to outside of Japan:
Empire Of The Sun - "Walking On A Dream" (MP3)
(Via Fluxblog)
You can download a remix by fellow Australian Sam La More at Empire Of The Sun's website. Or just listen to it at their MySpace.
Empire Of The Sun is out 10/3 on EMI.
Posted at 1:40 PM by brandon in Video
Tags: Empire Of The Sun
Wow, this is a great track! Dancable.
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wait - Empire of the Sun = Japan
Shanghai = China
Me = ?!??!
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In that book/movie the rich British kid, who's living in Shanghai, gets a reality check when Japan, who were occupying China at the time, declare war against the US and allies (WWII). It's tied into the Second Sino-Japanese War, etc.
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Gabriel Genesis has been my GUILTY pleasure through all past winter. You just have to let your guard down and have SOME degree of imagination or respect.
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ah well that makes more sense now. Good track all in all - as a historian who hasn't read the book the reference was lost on me.
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Very nice track. catchieliscous with a dash of danceubabulousness.
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Beatiful video and catchy song! I'm glad Luke Steele is still singing. Now I need to check out PNAU. The movie 'Empire Under the Sun' is recommended for any history buff.... an innocent rich British boy trapped in Shanghai.
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What a letdown! I've been listening to these guys' insanely awesome album the last couple days and was expecting bigger things than this conventional slo-mo, 3 setting, hipster music video. The album cover art implied that they had some exciting creative ideas. What a brilliant reference to these 70s-80s sci-fi films/novels.. I was hoping there would be a really coherent but varied world that they had created to back up this imagery. Like I was thinking the ultimate would be a Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome epic desert sci-fi scenarios going on. Oh well. Everything except this video is awesome. I was just hoping for the second coming.
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