Luke Steele announces his debut solo album Listen To The Water a record of psychedelic provenance that finds the Empire Of The Sun frontman pulling disparate strains of searching, astrally amplified music – from Syd Barrett’s hermetic folk experiments to the technicolor rush of the Flaming Lips at their most open-armed – into an adventurous, philosophically cogent whole. The result is a work of pointed words cloaked in a richly swirling atmosphere, an album that captures a blend of innocence and wisdom. Listen to the Water is Steele’s journey to himself, a chance to be naked, fearless and on his own.
“I have hard-wired myself to be in a constant state of ever-grow. I will never be satisfied. You don’t make a record for no-one to hear. I want people to be captivated by it. In a way it’s a life story. You want them to hear the mistakes, the wisdom, the failure but also the glory.”
– Luke Steele