“The music industry doesn’t offer participation prizes, but if it did, Australian duo Luke “Emperor” Steele and Nick “Lord” Littlemore, AKA Empire of the Sun, deserve flowers. Their work comes freighted with so much cape-swishing, astral-travelling effort. The pair’s speciality is fabulist nostalgia-pop: songs with as few sharp edges as possible, swaddled in sleek, shiny futurist imagery reminiscen”
