In the eight years since Nick Littlemore and Luke Steele’s last album, there have been hits, clashes, babies and illness – and a new appreciation for one another
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“Things are good. I don’t think things in the Empire have ever been better. We’re in a thoroughly creative flow state right now. We’re on a vision quest of sorts,” says Nick Littlemore, his honeyed voice simultaneously intense and strangely laid-back.
“Lord” Littlemore is calling from Hawaii, where he and “Emperor” Luke Steele are already working on their fifth album, having dropped their fourth, Ask That God, just a month ago. “Well, we waited so long to do the last one,” Littlemore says. (It was eight years.) “We thought, without further ado – because there’s certainly been a lot of that.”