| What It Takes to Move Forward | ||||
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| Released | September 29, 2009 | |||
| Genre | Emo, indie rock | |||
| Length | 55:39 | |||
| Label | Count Your Lucky Stars Records | |||
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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]
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]
- ^ "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.