"Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)" is a indie-rocked based group out of Metro-Detroit, Michigan. The project was started in 2006 as a solo project by Keith Latinen while he was engineering his own band, Anna Flyaway's, record. Latinen wrote and recorded every instrument on the debut EP, "When the Sea Became a Giant" and shortly after finishing the cd, his main project, Anna Flyaway, broke up. Soon after the release, Ayers and Murrell joined, and group took to the road to support their newest release.