The eight yr hiatus of The Empire of the Sun is formally over with the daybreak of their new period, ‘Ask That God.’ The duo shares their reasoning behind dissolving the band then coming again, the intimate themes of ‘Ask That God,’ their ideas on Mac Miller sampling their music for “The Spins,” working with PNAU and extra!

Luke Steele:

So he’s gonna be on the subsequent document. We’re gonna throw that on the market Billboard 

Katie Bain:

Manifesting that right here. 

Luke Steele:

Yep. 

Katie Bain:

It begins proper right here. Okay.

Luke Steele:

Paul McCartney, should you’re listening. Got some songs for you. Hello. We’re Empire of the Sun, and also you’re watching 

Nick Littlemore:

Billboard News.

Katie Bain:

Very excited to have you ever right here in the studio. Was it all the time inevitable that there can be a brand new Empire of the Sun album? 

Luke Steele:

It was just a little bit contact and go there. 

Nick Littlemore:

No, it was all the time inevitable. As to when. 

Luke Steele:

Yeah. I assume-

Nick Littlemore:

That’s the query. 

Katie Bain:

Okay.

Nick Littlemore:

The Empire will go on. It’s not like there’s different empires earlier than which have, all, you understand, folded. We will hold going. So

Katie Bain:

Sure. Why was this the proper second? 

Luke Steele:

We’ve been working collectively for 20 years, over 20 years, so I feel we needed to get to that time the place we mentioned, sufficient is sufficient. I’ve had it with you, Nick, go my very own means. You know, we needed to flip all the computer systems off. We needed to shut every little thing down. And though the pandemic was, you understand, horrible for the band, I feel it was a bit of a blessing as a result of we acquired to step away. You know, for 20 years we constructed this fort, and it was time for us to desert, variety of abandon the dream and let all of it get coated in raids, to then come again once more and understand what we cherished about it a lot in the first place.

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