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At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 61, based on 19 reviews. Walking on a Dream received generally positive reviews from music critics.
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Critical reception Professional ratings Aggregate scores Locations included the gardens of Sir Edward James at Las Pozas, Monterrey and García. The video for the song was shot in Mexico, and used the ancient Mexican festival Day of the Dead ( Día de Muertos) as its inspiration. The second single, " We Are the People", was released on 20 September 2008. The video features Steele and Littlemore, wearing faux-oriental costumes and makeup inspired by Peking Opera, on location along the Bund in Shanghai, China between 21 and 27 July 2008. " Walking on a Dream" was released on 30 August 2008 as the album's lead single. The album has been certified double platinum in Australia and gold in the United Kingdom. Walking on a Dream reached number six on the Australian Albums Chart and number 19 on the UK Albums Chart. According to EMI Music Australia's website, the painting of Steele and Littlemore that comprises the album artwork was based on the iconic film posters for Indiana Jones and Star Wars. Seriously, you can't make this stuff up.The album was recorded and mixed by Peter Mayes at Soundworks Music Studio in Sydney at various times throughout 2007, with additional recording by Chris Vallejo at Linear Recording, also in Sydney. The song's impenetrable lyrics reference a fitting thematic menagerie of real and imagined beasts, and also may or may not have influenced the naming of Steele's six month old daughter Sunny Tiger, his first child with wife Snappy Dolphin. Thankfully, "Tiger by My Side" bulldozes the second-half wreckage with Station to Station swagger and a pounding, jammy Neu! beat. Steele and Littlemore both seem incapable of diverging from their relentless quest for epic Meaning, but while some material is about as sublime and immediate as anything either has done, just as much crashes and burns. If a metaphor could describe such an utterly puzzling sense of scale, it would surely fall somewhere in between throwing pasta at the wall and hunting the White Whale.
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No wonder people buy individual tracks rather than full albums these days- few buzzes die so abruptly as in the transition of the complex, ethereal melodies of "We Are the People" into the following cut "Delta Bay", which sounds like "Thriller" sung by cats. Same beast, new duds: instead of packing the arrangements with Personality's meaningless little fills, countermelodies, and interludes, the duo try their hand at genres they've apparently always wanted to do, like booty bass or yacht rock ballads. It seems a career spent in such indulgence can't just be streamlined overnight, because although Empire tries mightily, they collapse underneath too many ideas before the record is even half over. This delusion of grandeur manifesests itself on Walking's ridiculous cover, the epic spawn of Star Wars and "Zoobilee Zoo" raised straight out of promo poster hell. He's the guy on the cover of the Sleepy Jackson's last record Personality as the bare-chested angel perched atop an Arctic ice field, austerely bearing in his arms the fetal, bare-chested figure of… himself. Luke Steele still effortlessly reminds everyone within earshot that he's really into himself. Of course, let's not forget who we're talking about here. Some cuts might even give rise to such simplistic fits of impulse as dancing. The addition of a co-composer has helped forge a bit of an uneasy truce in his frenzied psyche. Steele may be his own worst enemy, his finger always poised at the ready on the overdub button at the chance of adding jangle to his overwrought jangle-pop. Littlemore has evidently cleared a path for his partner, cutting through the relentless elaborations that adorned and perhaps encumbered the two Sleepy Jackson records.
The title track, with its clubby beat and falsetto hook, seems like the kind of hit Steele has always wanted to write, but here he's found the right editor.