What It Takes to Move Forward is the debut LP by Fenton, Michigan emo band, Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate), released in 2009 on Count Your Lucky Stars Records.[1]
What It Takes to Move Forward | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | September 29, 2009 | |||
Genre | Emo, indie rock | |||
Length | 55:39 | |||
Label | Count Your Lucky Stars Records | |||
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) chronology | ||||
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Vulture.com listed "Keep What You Have Built Up Here" as number 87 of the 100 greatest emo songs.[2] 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.[3]
Track listing
edit- "How to Make Love Stay" – 4:24
- "Keep What You Have Built Up Here" – 5:09
- "What Safe Means" – 4:01
- "It Happened Because You Left" – 8:09
- "Rally the Troops! Poke Holes In Their Defenses! Line Our Coffers with Their Coffins!" – 4:23
- "It's a Plague, and You're Invited" – 4:11
- "Everything Is Connected and Everything Matters (A Temporary Solution to a Permanent Problem)" – 4:01
- "The Next Step to Regaining Control" – 6:08
- "With Your Greatest Fears Realized, You Will Not Be Comforted" – 3:07
- "I Am a Snail, and You Are a Pace I Cannot Match" – 5:14
- "An Idea Is a Greater Monument Than a Cathedral" – 6:52
References
edit- ^ "What It Takes to Move Forward by Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)".
- ^ Ian Cohen; David Anthony; Nina Corcoran; Emma Garland; Brad Nelson (February 13, 2020). "The 100 Greatest Emo Songs of All Time". Vulture.com. Vox Media. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
- ^ "30 Best Emo Revival Albums, Ranked". SPIN. 14 June 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2022.