One year ago in October 2016, Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore of the Australian electronic/dance duo Empire of the Sun released their third studio album titled Two Vines. Now, however, according to Under the Radar Mag, the two have announced their intention to release a new EP dubbed On Our Way Home on November 10th, 2017. You may have noticed the hint on Citroen TV across the pond. With a flash of the words Empire of the Sun, the viewer begins to hear a new beat accompanied by a beautiful cacophany of chords. As quickly as the song is heard it’s off and the only way for you to hear the rest of the track before its official release is to purchase a luxury DS3 car as it is a hidden track.  

Check out the face melting video: 

To kickstart their release campaign for On Our Way Home, Empire of the Sun made available a music video for their new song “Way to Go”, which features some beautiful shots of both Steele and Littlemore as well as some celestial, radiant, out-of-this-world animation of their twisting faces. The director of “Way to Go”, Nobumichi Asai, used 3D scanning technology alongside motion capture to create the graphics in the video. And according to Luke Steele, it was no easy task. Steele states in an article by Pitchfork that “500 sticky dots coated with a reflective film are placed strategically on a mapping grid on our faces […] when the camera rolls and we sing, we move, our heads, laugh or have any facial movement the dots move and provide data to the computer.” Through this tactic alone, Asai was able to make their face contort in an insurmountable amount of ways. Watch their faces melt here.

Credits to Marisa Rosa Ficara

Although Empire of the Sun held a tour in support of Two Vines last spring of 2017, there appears to be no information on a tour for the newly announced EP.  

The upcoming EP On Our Way Home is the new follow-up to the album Two Vines released October 2016. Two Vines rose in the ranks to No. 51 in the Billboard’s Top 200 as well as a crisp No. 7 on The Australian Recording Industry Association. Releasing on November 10th, 2017, the new EP by Empire of the Sun will feature five new tracks, one of which is remixed by Japanese musician Cornelius. Check out the tracklist below:

On Our Way Home:

1. Way to Go
2. Way to Go (Cornelius Remix)
3. Way to Go (Gomez and Tritter Remix)
4. On Our Way Home
5. Two Leaves
   

Photo credit to Marisa Rosa Ficara.