Empire of the Sun’s global smash Walking On A Dream evokes mental images of swaying palm trees and waves crashing on some distant futuristic shoreline dotted with hyper-coloured skyscrapers. Much like this skyline in Shanghai:

image courtesy of ninjawil

… which incidentally is exactly where the vid for Walking On A Dream was filmed.

The Kate Miller Heidke cover version however gives the song a totally different feel… heartbreaking, quiet, gentle, dare we say… fragile?

Whaddya think of her cover? The reaction on Perez site is mixed…