Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate)

Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) is an emo band formed by Keith Latinen in 2006 in Fenton, Michigan as a a solo project. Soon after Cathy Latinen (his wife) joined and became the only other full-fledged member of the band. The two also run the amazing label Count Your Lucky Stars together. Despite the two being the only members technically, they frequently collaborate with others to form a full line-up.

E!E!(IWALE) are known for carrying on the legacy of the great 90's emo bands, such as Mineral and American Football. However, despite revitalising this sound, they do not exactly replicate it. Keith's voice is very distinct. It often ranges from being whisper-quiet to searingly high, and is actually somewhat reminiscent of Jónsi from Sigur Rós, though put through an emo filter and made distinct. His lyrics are also beautifully poetic. The guitars are very clean, gentle, and melodic, which I suppose is fairly prototypical of many emo bands. E!E! also integrates some very noodle-y sensibilities, with a lot of entwining between the numerous guitars. Throughout this, they also manage to incorporate many dynamic changes, through crescendos and climaxes in addition to the soft, quiet parts. Oh, and they're also sad all the time.

When The Sea Became A Giant (2007)

1. Our Love Has Made Us Pariahs

2. You Have To Believe That Life Is More Than The Sum Of Its Parts, Kiddo

3. Lilly, I Have Something Important To Tell You

4. They Will Throw Us To The Wolves

5. K.O. K.O. (The Most Of My Worries Are The Least Of Your Concerns)

Year Of The Rabbit (2008)

1. Year Of The Rabbit

2. Idk, My Bff Jill

Summer Tour 2009 EP (2009)

1. Everything Is Connected and Everything Matters

2. What Safe Means

3. Rally The Troops! Poke Holes In Their Defenses!

4. It Was Your Heart That Saved You

5. How To Stay Afloat In A Sea Of Change

Title It Yourself Compilation (2009)

25. Jacob's Song

What It Takes To Move Forward (2009)

1. How To Make Love Stay

2. Keep What You Have Built Up Here

3. What Safe Means

4. It Happened Because You Left

5. Rally The Troops! Poke Holes In Their Defenses! Line Our Coffers With Their Coffins!

6. It's A Plague And You're Invited

7. Everything Is Connected And Everything Matters (A Temporary Solution To A Permanent Problem)

8. The Next Step To Regaining Control

9. With Your Greatest Fears Realized, You Will Never Be Comforted

10. I Am A Snail, And You Are A Pace I Cannot Match

11. An Idea Is A Greater Monument Than A Cathedral 

What It Takes To Move Forward Bonus Tracks (2009)

1. Actually, I'm Just Wearing Your Glasses

2. It Was Your Heart That Saved You

3. So How Many Points Do You Have 'Till You Gain, You Know, The Ultimate Power?

4. Archival Footage

Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate)/football, etc. (2009)

1. Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - Documenting Thirty Days 

2. football, etc. - Fightin' Phoenix

Early Discography (2010)

1. Our Love Has Made Us Pariahs

2. You Have To Believe That Life Is More Than The Sum Of It's Parts, Kiddo

3. Lilly, I Have Something Important To Tell You

4. They Will Throw Us To The Wolves

5. K.O. K.O. (The Most Of My Worries Are The Least Of Your Concerns)

6. Year Of The Rabbit

7. Idk, My Bff Jill

8. How To Stay Afloat In A Sea Of Change

9. I knew this because as I drove, the hole that was me and my life was getting smaller and smaller and was being filled with New Hampshire, or maybe it was the idea of New Hampshire, but who cares, as long as it was filling up the hole.

Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate)/Into It. Over It. (2010)

1. Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - If We Had Found You Any Later, You Would Have Drowned

2. Into It. Over It. - Buffalo, NY

3. Into It. Over It. - Brenham, TX

2011 CYLS Topshelf SXSW 7'' Promo (2011)

1. What Had Taken Years To Put Together Was Destroyed In One Moment

Middle Discography (2011)

1. Our Love Has Made Us Pariahs

2. You Have To Believe That Life Is More Than The Sum Of It's Parts, Kiddo

3. Lilly, I Have Something Important To Tell You

4. They Will Throw Us To The Wolves

5. K.O. K.O. (The Most Of My Worries Are The Least Of Your Concerns)

6. Year Of The Rabbit

7. Idk, My Bff Jill

8. How To Stay Afloat In A Sea Of Change

9. I knew this because as I drove, the hole that was me and my life was getting smaller and smaller and was being filled with New Hampshire, or maybe it was the idea of New Hampshire, but who cares, as long as it was filling up the hole.

10. Jacob's Song

11. So How Many Points Do You Have ‘Till You Gain, You Know, The Ultimate Power?

12. It Was Your Heart That Saved You

13. Archival Footage

14. Documenting Thirty Days

15. If We Had Found You Any Later, You Would Have Drowned

16. What Had Taken Years To Put Together Was Destroyed In One Moment

17. Actually, I'm Just Wearing Your Glasses

18. Girls Will Not Frighten The Frost From The Grave

Home After Three Months Away (2011)

1. The Loneliness Inside Me Is A Place

2. Water

3. Everything Rests On Your Small Shoulders

4. I Swim Like A Minnow

On Time Spent Waiting, or Placing the Weight of the World on the Shoulders of Those You Love the Most (2011)

1. The Only One Who Could Ever Reach You

2. Everything Familiar Has Disappeared! The World Looks Brand-New!

3. When You Are Done Living On Borrowed Time

4. I Would Have Stolen You A Whole Orchestra

Annabel/Empire! Empire (I Was A Lonely Estate)/Joie De Vivre/The Reptilian (2011)

1. Annabel - Decisions, Decisions

2. Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - The Horror Of Riovanes

3. Joie De Vivre - Vicodin Lite

4. The Reptilian - Eddie's Lane

Bramble Jam II Promo 7" (2012)

1. The Wholesome Sea Is At Her Gates... Her Gates Both East And West

Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate)/Mountains For Clouds/Two Knights/Driving On City Sidewalks (2012)

1. Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - Everything Small Is Just A Small Version Of Something Big

2. Mountains For Clouds - Does It Really Antimatter?

3. Two Knights - Solo Swimming

4. Driving On City Sidewalks - For You, Celeste

Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate)/Rika (2012)

1. Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - We Were Not Small or Great but Grown

2. Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - It's a fate we can't escape. Someday we will all pass away.

3. Rika - Skutner

Arrows/Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) (2012)

1. Arrows - All Passwords are Brisbane

2. Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - Turbo Stasis

3. Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - We Did Not Need to Open It to Know It Was There

Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate)/Malegoat (2013)

1. Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - When We Did Not Move or Speak, There Was No Proof That We Were There at All

2. Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - You Promised You'd Stay Here With Me

3. Malegoat - Call Down 

4. Malegoat -  The Midnights Lie Around

Leave Nothing but Footprints, Take Nothing But Photographs - Chapter III (2013)

1. You Weren't Ready Yet. Your Ears Could Hear, But Not Your Heart

In Which the Choices We Didn't Make Were Better Than the Ones That We Did (2013)

1. I Would Have Stolen You a Whole Orchestra (Stability Version)

2. Rally the Troops! Poke Holes in Their Defenses! Line Our Coffers With Their Coffins! (Original Version)

Fest 12 Split (2013)

1. Dikembe - I Watch A Lot Of Jackie Chan Movies (Acoustic)

2. The Hotel Year - Settle The Scar

3. Modern Baseball - Voting Early

4. Old Gray - The Foxes Begin To Starve

5. Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - The Hour of Pearl

6. Pentimento - It Happens To The Best Of Us

You Will Eventually Be Forgotten (2014)

1. Ribbon

2. I Was Somewhere Cold, Dark... And Lonely

3. We Are People Here. We Are Not Numbers

4. A Keepsake

5. You Have to Be So Much Better Than You Ever Thought

6. Stay Divided

7. Foxfire

8. Things Not Worth Fixing 

9. If It's Bad News, It Can Wait

10. It's So Much Darker When A Light Goes Out Than It Would Have Been If It Had Never Shone

11. The Promise That Life Can Go On No Matter How Bad Our Losses

Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate)/Joie De Vivre (2014)

1. Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - Since You Left Home On Your Journey, Things Have Changed Around Here

2. Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - Some Doors Aren't Locked. They Open Without A Key

3. Joie De Vivre - It Can Be Comforting

4. Joie De Vivre - April, 2009

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