Crafting tunes like nobody’s business

Blink, and Ace Enders is working under a new moniker. He started with The Early November, dabbled in this solo project obnoxiously titled I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody’s Business and has also released an album under the Ace Enders and a Million Different People handle.

But no matter what’s on the cover of the album, Enders always churns out an album’s worth of folksy introspection, and his second I Can Make a Mess release, “The World We Know,” is no different.

Composed as one 43-minute track, “The World We Know” should be listened to as such. The flow between what would be different songs is superb, and there is an overall breezy feeling that contrasts with Enders’ sometimes not-as-breezy lyrics.

On an individual level, the best efforts on “The World We Know” extend past the four-and-a-half minute mark while letting Enders do his acoustic, dreamy thing. “Sleep Means Sleeping,” “Old Man...........” and “Telling Me Goodbye” are some of the best tracks he’s ever penned.

Whether he’s with a million other people, predicting a premature winter or making a mess, Ace Enders can craft a substantive tune.