Empire of the Sun is a new collaboration from Luke Steele of The Sleepy Jackson and Nick Littlemore of Pnau. The two sparked up  a friendship that quickly turned into the creation of the Empire of the Sun and has produced Walking on a Dream, which has been described as a “rare marriage of rock and electronica, immediacy and depth, futurism and tradition, hi-tech production and creative spontaneity, pop melody and the cinematic.”

Don’t let the gaudy cover art fool you, this album wonderful. Fans of MGMT should feel right at home with Empire of the Sun. If you head on to the iTunes Music store, you can download the title track of Walking On a Dream for free this week.

Walking On a Dream is available now on Astralwerks.