Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

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Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) formed in Urbana, Illinois around 2004, with Keith Freund and Andy Stack at the core. They built a small but dedicated...

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Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) formed in Urbana, Illinois around 2004, with Keith Freund and Andy Stack at the core. They built a small but dedicated following for their particular blend of indie rock and emo, marked by Freund's vocals and songs with long, winding titles like 'An Idea Is a Greater Monument Than a Cathedral' and 'I Would Have Stolen You a Whole Orchestra.'

Their albums, including 'You Will Eventually Be Forgotten' and 'What It Takes to Move Forward,' often dealt in themes of isolation and melancholy. The music could feel fragile and sprawling at the same time, a quality that defined tracks such as 'Everything Small Is Just a Small Version of Something Big.'

They released music intermittently over more than a decade, with a catalog that includes 'Of Course, There's Still the Rest of the World' and 'Inverted.' The band's work never aimed for broad commercial reach, but it found its listeners through a specific emotional resonance.

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