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After two decades, it would be all too easy for a band to just phone it in—capitalize on
the fanbase they’ve built up in that time and just make a watered-down version of
themselves. Not for The Early November, however. Ever since forming in New Jersey in
2001, the band, now consisting of frontman Ace Enders and founding drummer Jeff
Kummer— have constantly been striving to find the best and most definitive version of
themselves. With this self-titled record, the seventh studio album of their career, the duo
have come as close as is possible to doing so. It’s an album that ties the past, present
and future all together, and as such, it marks what Enders calls a “period or exclamation
point in our sentence”. It’s not a new beginning, per se, but nevertheless something
emphatic that signifies, in Enders’ words again, “a pivotal moment” for them both.
“The initial spark of this record was frustration,” he says. “Although we are growing in
many ways and it’s a beautiful thing to be able to do what we do, it was born out of
feeling like you’re doing the same thing over and over again, and out of this ‘I don’t care’
mentality. Not ‘I don’t care about the world’, but really digging deep artistically and
having the view that if this is it, then I want The Early November to finally have the
album that’s good enough to be the self-titled album.” With Hellogoodbye. $30 - $45.
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