The members of the Early November were young enough to have grown up with the Drive-Thru Records sound, a formula that incorporated sensitive emo, pop, and punk revivalist amalgams with a bit of post-hardcore grit. Emerging in 2000, the New Jersey rockers issued their debut EP for the label, For All of This, in 2002. They stayed with Drive-Thru until the release of 2012's In Currents, which like subsequent releases Imbue (2015) and Lilac (2019), was released on Rise Records.