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Whew--I'm glad Empire of The Sun's brand new video, "We Are The People" isn't a black and white performance piece....

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Posted April 28th, 2009, 12:04 PM by Jim Shearer

Whew–I’m glad Empire of The Sun’s brand new video, “We Are The People” isn’t a black and white performance piece.

Australian-based, Empire of The Sun, consisting of Luke Steele (Sleepy Jackson) and Nick Littlemore (Pnau) released their U.S. debut, Walking On A Dream, last week. If their brightly-colored, nothing-less-than-epic album cover was any indication–not to mention that their band name is said to be inspired by J.G. Ballard’s novel, Empire Of The Sun (which was later adapted into a film)–Empire Of The Sun are going big.

(left: The award for most theatrical band attire of the year goes to…)

Their first single/video, “Walking On A Dream” (which has already logged over 4 million YouTube hits) was popcorn-in-hand, cinematic worthy, so it gives me great pleasure to find out that their latest video continues with the same theme:

Tags: Empire of the Sun, Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Pnau, Sleepy Jackson, Walking On A Dream, We Are The People

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