Drive-Thru
2003
The Room's Too Cold
About This Album
It's nice to know that Drive-Thru is diversifying its brand enough to grant the Early November's "Ace" Arthur Enders pacing and styling carte blanche. He seems to be the singular songwriting force behind Room's Too Cold, which begins with the acoustic surge of "Ever So Sweet." Enders' voice soars and cracks in all the right places, and strings -- not crashing power chords -- are the order of the day. "Can't you see this wall you built for me/We're not special/I'm not special/Ever so special that you baked it in cakes for me" -- it might sound whiny on paper, but shucks if Enders and the sweeping cellos don't make tears drip from your CD changer. It seems like another winner for the Cali-based Drive-Thru, which has found sustenance in a crop of young New Jersey bands raised on its tastemaking punk-pop sound (Senses Fail, Hidden in Plain View, etc.) Of course, Enders and his fresh-faced pals have a soft spot for amps, too, as "Something That Produces Results" suggests. But even here, the tingling energy of the song's tense chorus dissipates into atmospheric verses -- "Now I'm scared", Enders muses, before launching once more into the clamoring chorus.
Track List

Disc 1 (try tracks 1,2 and 8)

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