Monday 10th June 2013 by Michael Baggs

Tags: Empire Of The Sun

Australian pop band Empire Of The Sun are streaming second album Ice On The Dune online in full. Listen below. Click here to listen to the album.

The band return this year after the success of their 2008 debut, Walking On A Dream. The band reunites Australian dance duo Pnau with The Sleepy Jackson frontman Luke Steele for a second dose of soaring, psychedelic pop, and features single 'Alive', which was released earlier in 2013.

The album stream was premiered on US music website Rolling Stone, and speaking to the magazine, Steele revealed the main aim of the album was to please fans of their debut release.

"We just really wanted to make a good record and not alienate this sound that people love so much," he tells the magazine. "I read something (written by) one of these finer chefs, and he said, 'People have to remember that restaurants can lose customers by forgetting what they love about it in the first place.' We didn't want to do that – not to indulge or re-invent the wheel of sound, or lose the synergy of everything on the first record."

Click here to listen to Ice On The Dune at Rolling Stone

Ice On The Dune is released on 17 June, 2013. The full tracklisting is as follows:

Lux
DNA
Alive
Concert Pitch
Ice On The Dune
Awakening
I’ll Be Around
Old Flavours
Celebrate
Surround Sound
Disarm
Keep A Watch

Empire Of The Sun will perform a one-off festival show at Wilderness Festival in August 2013. Tickets are on sale now. For more information, visit Gigwise Gig Tickets.

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