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Empire of the Sun: Ask That God review – the magic’s still there
Eight years on from their last album, the Australian duo’s fabulist nostalgia-pop is a triumph of feeling over artifice
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. Like their three previous projects, this one contains at least two elite tunes (Changes, Cherry Blossom) interspersed with effervescent yet evanescent second-tier tracks (Revolve, Music on the Radio, Ask That God) and smoothly produced non-bangers (everything else). As usual, there’s a ballad seeking the vibe of a romcom’s penultimate scene – the tear-soaked tux at the graduation ball – that’s fatally hobbled by Steele’s effect-laden vocal.
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