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Empire Of The Sun

Walking On A Dream

Electronic pop due from Australia including Luke Steels of The Sleepy Jackson

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5.9

Label
Columbia
UK Release date
26/01/2009
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  1. 8.0 |   Evening Standard

    The Pet Shop Boys would give their imminent Brit Award for songs such as We Are the People and the outstanding title track, but they're at their best on Half Mast, the catchiest piece of pop soul since Hall & Oates were cool
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  2. 8.0 |   NME

    OK, let’s just spear the elephant in the room: Empire Of The Sun are really, really like MGMT.
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  3. 8.0 |   The Independent

    Everything's ordered and in its precise place, softly comforting and sumptuously syntheti
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  4. 6.0 |   musicOMH

    Tipped by many in those 'Big in 2009' polls, Empire Of The Sun are an interesting prospect, and one that feels achingly 'now', despite the retrogressive nature of the music.
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  5. 6.0 |   Observer Music Monthly

    It's a pretty thin effort from a man whose best work is as layered and intricate as a psychedelic wedding cake.
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  6. 6.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Cheesetastic, Eighties-flavored keyboards.
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  7. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    It's a ripe cheese, best not consumed whole.
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  8. 6.0 |   Blender

    Sounds as familiar as montage music in an HBO midday movie, but it will haunt your dreams.
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  9. 5.0 |   Clash

    …look for it in year-end top 40s, but don’t hold your breath for a top ten position. In short: this year’s MGMT.
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  10. 5.0 |   Observer Music Monthly

    When it comes to closest soundalikes MGMT, they unquestionably pale by comparison.
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  11. 5.0 |   The Quietus

    For a band so intent on labelling themselves the harbingers of a new populist sound, as they've done in numerous interviews during the run-up to the album's release, the ten tracks featured here are firmly lodged within an all too familiar framework.
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  12. 5.0 |   PopMatters

    If Empire of the Sun want to make an ‘80s pop album, they have every right to do so. And if they really wanted to emulate the top songs of the ‘80s, then they did an excellent job in capturing that aesthetic.
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  13. 4.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    As with Gruff Rhys’s Neon Neon, you’re simultaneously unsure as to whether it’s a conceptual prank…
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