Featuring lead single 'What We Earn', The Early November is a 10 song collection that pays homage to who the band is, was, and has yet to become. On the single, frontman Ace Enders shares: ''What We Earn' was the first song written for the album, and probably the most intense as well. It's about the realization that the glass ceiling over our heads is supported by the walls we build throughout our lives.' 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 front man 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.
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