![]() For them, two feathers in a headband was sufficient. I think he does it a helluva lot better than MGMT who might have had better tunes for indie radio and hipster festivals but didn't know their way around a Native American headdress nearly as well. Luke Steele of Empire of the Sun Credit:Kyle Dean Reinford He is not a cosmic Red Indian from outer space preaching spiritual tracts but he thinks it is funny to pretend to be one in order to propel his message forth through all of the many mediums available to him as a post-millenial pop figurehead. ![]() In this way Empire of the Sun are maybe the perfect expression of pop music in 2013 because everything is an illusion, every surface is shiny, showmanship is everything and humour is also in full view. In pop music it always should be because here make-believe is everything. Wealthy, and deeply creative, but relatively normal away from the festival stages of the world. He spends a lot of time with his mum and we know this because he says so all the time in most of his outlandish, next-to-useless, vague and analogy-ridden interviews. He is about to soundtrack Dumb & Dumber 2. His real life may be slightly more regulation, although Steele does own homes in several places he now mainly lives on the verdant Coromandel Peninsula on New Zealand's North Island and owns a hotel in Santa Monica, California. The phantasmagorical wonderlands of his increasingly fevered music. To be Luke Steele from Empire of the Sun and, sometimes, Sleepy Jackson, is to inhabit some kind of gnostic superpop netherworld. ![]()
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