Last month, with great fanfare, Australian synth-rock stars Empire Of The Sun announced the impending release of their sophomore album Ice On The Sun. That album's goofily epic trailer might've indicated a move toward cosmic prog, but the album's first single "Alive," which the band just shared, is actually a peppy and festival-directed blast of chanty, keyboard-streaked euphoria, one not too different from first-album Passion Pit or first-album MGMT. Listen to it below.
Ice On The Dune is out in June on Astralwerks.
