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“NO ONE DEFEATS US,” THE EXPLOSIVE FIRST SINGLE FROM DREAMS, IS OUT NOW DREAMS – Comprising Luke Steele Of Empire Of The Sun And The Sleepy Jackson And silverchair’s Daniel Johns – Make Their Live Debut At Coachella On April 13 |
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Download / Stream “No One Defeats Us” HERE View Static Video HERE DREAMS make their debut with the anthemic single “No One Defeats Us” – out today and available HERE – and a pair of live performances at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (April 13 and 20). The band is the realization of a long-time friendship and musical kinship between two iconic Australian artists – Luke Steele (aka Miracle), the enigmatic front man of Empire Of The Sun and The Sleepy Jackson, and Daniel Johns (aka Dr Dreams), best known as the front man of silverchair. “No One Defeats Us” is a war cry. It’s like the exorcism of a bad series of events, or a bad dream. The single, written and produced by DREAMS , was recorded at Steele’s studio in Los Angeles and Henson Studios, Hollywood. Daniel Johns says, “We wanted to go with something first that said, ‘we are here to rip your head off.’ It says lyrically what our goal is. It’s a journey into our vision of the future. ‘No One Defeats Us’ is a very simple song: it has no chorus, it feels like a mantra.” Luke Steele adds, “The song is the whole genesis of the band. This is where it all started for us. Listen to the first verse – ‘… no one defeats us because we are a spirit, one as a body, the new controversy.’” The two first met in 2004 when Steele’s band, The Sleepy Jackson, supported silverchair. Johns recalls the connection between them was so instantaneous that, after the first show of that tour, they played piano together backstage – and have basically never stopped. Steele recalls a long period of “just hanging out” before DREAMS crystalized. “We would catch up and talk about records and visions and dreams and we never got any work done. Then we thought we better make some music,” he says. Johns explains, “When Luke and I are making music, everything disappears and we become like teenage explorers, we go into our world. We are so brave when we are together, we try things that we might not try for other people. This song is not really what people would expect from Luke and I, we’re not making super-complex music with lots of unusual chords this time. We are trying to paint this really intricate pulse. We find what resonates and try to make that pulse stronger.” “Dan and I excel and struggle on similar levels” says Steele. “We have so much passion and we are so ambitious. ‘No One Defeats Us’ came from a time when we were beginning the band and we needed something deep. I wanted to build a gang – like a gang of the future. We want the band to be for the common man, the underdog, the homeless, the person who shows love to his neighbor.” DREAMS will perform “No One Defeats Us” – and other new songs – live for the first time at Coachella . |
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