THE EARLY NOVEMBER DISCOGRAPHY & VIDEOS

1. For All of This (2002)
2. The Room's Too Cold (2003)
3. The Mother, the Mechanic and the Path (2006)









For All of This
Released December 6, 2002, Length 31:53, Label Drive-Thru Records

1.Every Night's Another Story 2:46
2.I Want to Hear You Sad 3:30

3.All We Ever Needed 3:00

4.Sunday Drive 3:53

5.Take Time and Find 3:43

6.Ashala Rock 2:50

7.Come Back 2:54

8.We Write the Wrong 9:17

For All of This is the first EP from The Early November. It was written entirely by the lead singer, Arthur 'Ace' Enders, and features brief replacement guitarist (of Joseph Marro), John Dubitsky. Its title comes from the first line of the chorus in "I Want to Hear You Sad".

The Room's Too Cold
Released October 6, 2003, Length 46:40, Label Drive-Thru

1.Ever So Sweet (4:19)
2.Something That Produces Results (2:43)

3.The Mountain Range In My Living Room (4:17)

4.Sesame, Smeshame (4:15)

5.Baby Blue (3:42)

6.The Course of Human Life (5:26)

7.Dinner at the Money Table (3:57)

8.Exchanging Two-Hundred (4:27)

9.My Sleep Pattern Changed (3:37)

10.Fluxy (3:29)

11.Everything's Too Cold...But You're so Hot (6:34)

The Room's Too Cold is the first full length CD released by The Early November. It was co-produced by the lead singer - Arthur 'Ace' Enders.  This CD also features a guest appearance from Kenny Vasoli of The Starting Line, who was also signed to Drive-Thru Records at the time. It currently has a rating of 3.8 "Excellent" on sputnikmusic.

The Mother, The Mechanic and the Path

Released July 11, 2006, Label Drive-Thru 

The Mechanic

1.Money in His Hand 3:44
2.The Rest of My Life 2:41

3.Decoration 3:21

4.No Good at Saying Sorry (One More Chance) 3:45

5.This Wasn't in Our Plan 4:06

6.The One That You Hated 3:55

7.Long Talks 4:01

8.Outside 4:07

9.Make a Decision 3:51

10.The Car in 20 3:46

11.Figure It Out 4:54

12.5 Years (Target only bonus track) 3:41

The Mother

1.My Lack of Skill 3:31

2.A Little More Time 3:26

3.Little Black Heart 4:00

4.Hair 3:06

5.Driving South 3:21

6.Scared to Lose 3:17

7.From Here to L.A. 3:17

8.Is It My Fault 4:03

9.I Don't Know How to Say This 3:11

10.The Truth Is 4:38

11.1000 Times a Day 5:39

The Path

1.Intro 2:16

2.We Grew Up the Same 4:26

3.Runaway 3:42

4.Session 01 2:37

5.This Is Love 1:17

6.Session 02 0:40

7.We're Finding Something Out 1:31

8.Session 03 1:12

9.Decoration 1:30

10.Session 04 1:16

11.Uncle 0:44

12.Session 05 1:41

13.Never Coming Back 3:03

14.Guess What 1:10

15.Session 06 0:21

16.You Don't Know What It's Like 1:35

17.Session 07 1:57

18.Look at Me 1:58

19.Session 08 3:03

20.Session 08 Part II 2:19

21.Runaway II 3:43

22.Session 09 0:54

23.I Think This Is Love 1:06
24.A Bigger Meaning  6:12

The Mother, the Mechanic, and the Path is The Early November's second full-length album. The triple disc concept album was released on July 11, 2006 via Drive-Thru Records. It currently has a rating of 3.6 "Great" on sputnikmusic.

Production

The recording of the album began on February 28, 2005 and took over a year until its completion due to the nature of a triple disc record, stress, Enders changing the concept of the story several times mid-record, and ultimately the lack of focus which led to a mid-recording nervous breakdown. This forced the album's release to be postponed from its original June 2005 street date to July 2006. The third disc, The Path, which was written by Enders and Jeff Kummer, and co-produced by Enders, was turned down seven times by Drive-Thru Records for quality control, although the label still were not totally satisfied with the results, before finally being approved.

Ace Enders also did the artwork for The Mother, the Mechanic and the Path, drawing up a father in a mechanics uniform named Matt, a mother and a son named Dean, for the cover and booklet.

Music and lyrical content

The album is broken down into three chapters:

The Mechanic – the proclaimed "rock" disc of the album, showcasing the heavier side of the band. According to singer/guitarist Ace Enders, The Mechanic is the group's "safe bet", the album they would have made if it had only been one disc. It represents the technical progression from its predecessor The Room's Too Cold (2003), hence the title.

The Mother – a mostly unplugged effort in the vein of The Early November's The Acoustic EP (2003) and Enders' solo CD I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business (2004). The disc focuses on the band's mellow facet, featuring a more natural sound, conveyed by the use of predominantly acoustic instruments and few effects or filters.

The Path – an audio theatre of sorts, which mixes dialogue between a young man named Dean and his psychiatrist with soft background music. The psychiatry sessions that narrate the story are interrupted by short "musical"-esque songs, also introducing the interaction of other characters. The songs cover a wide range of musical genres, including blues, country and folk.

Release

Once released, Drive-Thru Records made an effort to boost record sales with various promotion campaigns, bonus offers and price discounts. During the first weeks of sales, purchases of The Mother, the Mechanic, and the Path from Best Buy were accompanied by a bonus DVD (containing the music video to "Hair" and a 35-minute making-of documentary), while Target customers were rewarded with an exclusive bonus track.

As of January 2007, the band has sold 78,669 copies of The Mother, the Mechanic, and the Path.

THE EARLY NOVEMBER ***

The Early November was an American rock band from Hammonton, New Jersey. The group formed in 1999 and signed with Drive-Thru Records in 2002. As of 2006, they have released two EPs (2002's For All of This and 2002's The Acoustic EP), as well as two full-length albums (2003's The Room's Too Cold and 2006's triple album The Mother, the Mechanic, and the Path). Their latest effort debuted at #31 on the Billboard 200. They also participated in the Vans Warped Tour in 2002–2004 and 2006.

History

The band was formed by Arthur Enders along with guitarist Jim Sacco, bassist Sergio Anello and drummer Jeff Kummer in Hammonton, New Jersey in February 2001. Together, they recorded a five track demo in Enders' basement and sent it, along with a poorly edited videotape to only one label: Drive-Thru Records.

A couple of months passed while both Sacco and Anello had to budge for more skilled replacements, Steve Nakovich (guitar) and Mike Klemash (bass), until the band got in touch with Richard Reines of Drive-Thru, who luckily was visiting their hometown and agreed to meet with the band to give advice. Stunned by what he had heard, Reines returned to California to discuss a possible signing with Drive-Thru co-owner Stefanie Reines. A few weeks and yet another line-up change later (Joe Marro joined for Nakovich), Drive-Thru signed The Early November and put them, despite their practically non-existent stage experience, on 2002's Skate and Surf Fest and on selected dates of the Warped Tour.

Klemash and Marro left the band before the recording of their debut EP For All of This. Anello re-joined on bass, while a second guitarist was found in John Dubitsky. The CD came out on Drive-Thru Records in early November 2002. Enders recorded The Acoustic EP on his own, featuring acoustic versions of most songs off their debut EP, which was released a mere two months later. Simultaneously, guitarist Marro had re-joined the band in exchange for Dubitsky. If it wasn't for the overall performance of the band, they would still be performing today.

Throughout 2003, the band continued to tour and write songs in preparation for their first full-length CD The Room's Too Cold, which was released in fall of that year. Soon afterwards, Enders recorded a solo record under the name I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business. The CD was almost scrapped due to Enders wanting to focus on The Early November after Kummer left the band in summer 2004 and re-joined two weeks later.

During the recording process of their triple album, The Mother, The Mechanic, The Path, guitar tech Bill Lugg joined the band as a third guitarist.

The long awaited triple disc album The Mother, the Mechanic, and the Path was released on July 11, 2006. The album subsequently debuted at #31 on the Billboard Top 200 chart for the week ending July 21, 2006. This was the band's highest charting album to date.

On March 13, 2007, The Early November posted an announcement on their website that they "will be taking an indefinite hiatus" following their last headlining tour with The Rocket Summer and Mêlée and The Verdict / Nothing Ever Stays and two farewell shows in April 2007. The first night, the last song played was "I Want To Hear You Sad". On the second night, the last song played at their final headlining show at the Trocadero in Philadelphia, PA was "Truth Is". Their last show ever as a band was played on May 6, 2007 at the Bamboozle Festival in New Jersey. The final song ever played was "Every Night's Another Story". However, it is worth noting that the band's statement on their website does not rule out them reforming in the future. In fact, a blog posted on their Myspace states that, following a recent meeting, The Early November decided that they will possibly conduct a reunion tour in the distant future.

Reunion rumor

On May 28, 2009, Jeff Kummer posted on his Twitter, "Meeting ace for lunch. Were gonna get the band back together." Ace Enders posted a blog entitled "A note from Ace" stating, "it seems like most of you understand now that Jeff’s comment last week about the band getting back together wasn’t true, but the responses I’ve seen got me thinking". It was rumored that Ace and Serg were planning to play songs from The Early November and I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business for their then-upcoming tour in summer 2009, which subsequently turned out to be true.