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Album • 2009

What It Takes to Move Forward

Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)11 songs • 55 minutes

What It Takes to Move Forward is the debut studio album by American emo band, Empire! Empire!, released in 2009 on Count Your Lucky Stars Records. Vulture.com listed "Keep What You Have Built Up Here" as number 87 of the 100 greatest emo songs. Spin ranked the album number 13 out of the 30 best emo revival albums, writing that the album had "garnered a mythical cult status" after its release. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_It...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)

Songs

  1. 1
    How to Make Love Stay
    Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)
  2. 2
    Keep What You Have Built Up Here
    Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)
  3. 3
    What Safe Means
    Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)
  4. 4
    It Happened Because You Left
    Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)
  5. 5
    Rally the Troops! Poke Holes in Their Defenses! Line Our Coffers With Their Coffins!
    Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)
  6. 6
    It's a Plague, and You're Invited
    Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)
  7. 7
    Everything Is Connected and Everything Matters (a Temporary Solution to a Permanent Problem)
    Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)
  8. 8
    The Next Step to Regaining Control
    Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)
  9. 9
    With Your Greatest Fears Realized, You Will Not Be Comforted
    Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)
  10. 10
    I Am a Snail, and You Are a Pace I Cannot Match
    Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)
  11. 11
    An Idea Is a Greater Monument Than a Cathedral
    Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

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