Empire Of The Sun's Luke Steele Announces Debut Solo Album 'Listen To The Water', Shares Common Man
Thursday, 10 February 2022
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Jodi Steele
Empire Of The Sun frontman Luke Steele has announced his debut solo album.
'Listen To The Water' will arrive on May 13 and marks the latest project from the Australian musician, who is also the leader of The Sleepy Jackson.
It follows his 2018 joint LP with Silverchair's Daniel Johns under the moniker DREAMS, as well as a side project called H3000's self-titled debut, released in 2021. He said:
"I'm taking you on a journey to myself. This solo record was a chance for me to be naked, fearless and on my own. That was confronting. There was salvation and sadness, dreams and nightmares, heroes and villains. Strange changes, epiphanies, miracles and madness."
Along with the news, Steele has dropped Common Man, a blissed-out track comprising acoustic strumming over soft atmospheric synths, breathy backing vocals, and flickers of pedal steel.
"Common Man is about the underdog," explained Steele. "The working class, forever hustling but sometimes it gets too much. Finding a place of rest is unpredictable, it comes in waves. But the triumph is born from that struggle and you'll see the glory within all the moments and tests."
It arrives with a video directed by longtime creative partner Jodi Steele, who added:
"This song is about existing between beauty and torment, mentally and emotionally. Being the common man but not part of the conformity. As your endurance is tested your character is forming. Visually the video was shot at the height of snow fall here at the Eccentric Farm where we had the opportunity to shoot in such a pristine and alien environment. Luke cuts a dark figure, a black shadow against the stark white backdrop. Light and dark elements co-existing, not unlike what lives within us all."
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