Pnau is an Australian dance music duo from Sydney made up of Nick Littlemore (who also plays in bands Teenager and Empire of The Sun) and Peter Mayes. The duo released their award-winning debut album Sambanova in 1999 under the Peking Duck label and scored two major hits with the singles “Need Your Lovin’ Baby” and “Sambanova”.
After signing with Warner Music Australia, the pair started to work on their sophomore album, Again. Released in 2003, the album got pretty bad reviews and a similarly unfavorable response from fans. A few tracks ended up having considerable success though, the most noteworthy being “We Love The Fresh Skills”. However, because of Again‘s lackluster success the pair parted ways for some time to work with other artist’s such as Robbie Williams, Van She, and Lost Valentinos.
When the two reunited in 2007 they wrote over two hundred songs together and started to lay down an entire album. They sent a work-in-progress track to long-time friend and collaborator Luke Steele, who sent back the track with his own vocals. After receiving the track Littlemore and Mayes decided to scrap everything they had laid down to focus on a more vocally centered album. The new self-titled album not only featured vocal work from Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore himself, but also had many guest appearances such as Nik Yannika from Lost Valentinos, Michael DeFrancesco from Van She and Ladyhawke, who guested on massive hit single “Embrace”.
PNAU (Feat. Ladyhawke) – Embrace (Tits & Clits Remix)
You can find out more on Pnau and sample a few tracks on the band’s official MySpace. Buy Pnau’s new album now on 
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PNAU – THE TRUTH (Electro/Pop – Australia)
June 14, 2011 at 10:51 pm (UTC 1)
[...] after a long break, Pnau is finally announcing a new album, tentatively titled Soft Universe and scheduled for release in [...]
LADYHAWKE – MAGIC (NuWave/Electro – New Zealand)
June 16, 2011 at 6:53 pm (UTC 1)
[...] to part ways, she moved to Melbourne, Australia. She then became one half of the duo Teenager with PNAU’s Nick Littlemore. She also contributed vocals on one of Pnau’s best known songs [...]
FAKER vs MIAMI HORROR – THIS HEART ATTACK (Indie/Electro/Club – Australia)
June 18, 2011 at 12:13 pm (UTC 1)
[...] house parties and regular weekly club nights in his hometown. Having remixed for the likes of Pnau, The Presets, Midnight Juggernauts and Datarock in the space of a year, Miami Horror has been [...]
U R MY DISCO // vol.4
July 3, 2011 at 3:13 pm (UTC 1)
[...] – Bulletproof 06 Van She – Strangers 07 CSS – Move (Cut Copy Remix) 08 Guy J – Lamur 09 Pnau (Feat. Ladyhawke) – Embrace 10 Lykke Li vs Kings Of Leon – Knocked Up (Death to the throne [...]
FRED FALKE – AURORA (Club/FilterHouse – France)
December 17, 2011 at 3:22 pm (UTC 1)
[...] synth-laden remixes for the likes of Little Boots, Likke Li, Metronomy, Burns, Hot Chip, Florrie or Pnau, always demonstrating a particular ability to balance the energy of dance music with a strong pop [...]