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Artist News
Empire Of The Sun recording second album
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 15 August 2011
Empire Of The Sun’s Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore have begun work on their second album. As previously reported, Littlemore stopped performing with the band last year, having never toured, concentrating instead on his main project, Pnau, and his work as musical director of the Cirque Du Soleil musical, Zarkana.
According to Steele, the pair had no contact for over a year, but last month went to a New York studio to work on new music. He told the NME: “Me and Nick have reunited and we’ve done about ten demos for the next record, so the new [Empire Of The Sun] era has begun”.
Explaining the pair’s unusual relationship, he said: “As the [first] record came out Nick joined the circus, literally, and that project took a lot longer than he thought it would. That’s why he hasn’t been in the band. We have such a weird relationship because the day before we actually went into the studio was the first time we’d spoken since the BRIT Awards last year. And it was great, the sessions went really well. We’re hoping to go into the studio again in September”.
