5 Questions With Ace Enders
5 Questions With Ace Enders
Arthur “Ace” Enders, the namesake behind Ace Enders And A Million Different People, checked in from the road to tell CMJ about his new album When I Hit The Ground, released March 17 on Vagrant Records. Unfortunately, the million different people could not be contacted.
Ace Enders And A Million Different People is currently on tour with the All American Rejects, but a headlining tour is on the horizon for this summer with hopes to recruit Person L for support. For fans of Ace’s former band The Early November, keep faith. Ace expects “maybe one show here or there,” but doesn’t plan on a full-on reunion.
Let’s talk about the new album. Does When I Hit The Ground have a concept or theme?
You know, I wouldn’t really say it had a concept, but if I had to say anything it’s just the past couple years of my life, just getting older. That’s pretty much the theme and really realizing what’s important and how hard it is to hold onto the things that you dreamed when you were younger.
Describe the difference sounds between Secret Wars and When I Hit The Ground.
I think When I Hit The Ground is more an evolved sound, a more put-together sound than Secret Wars was. Secret Wars I pretty much did all by myself in my home studio. When I Hit The Ground I had a good friend named Chris Badami who worked on it with me and we tried to really take everything from the Secret Wars or the feel of it– but sort of really work out and make sure that the music was just much more– I don’t know. I think the music on When I Hit The Ground just sounds more fuller. It makes more sense to me anyway. It’s more sporadic on the Secret Wars and we tried to harness all the feel that we could from it but still make a record that could reach out to a broader group of people.
It’s been almost a year since you released “Bring Back Love (Year 2020).” It’s not quite 2020, but do you think the world has made any progress in bringing the love back in the past year?
I think it’s slowly getting there, slowly changing. Definitely the people at shows and people that I run into are very, very much trying to bring it back. I actually ran into a few people who started little organizations because of it, trying just to do the right thing and help people.
In that respect, about bands making music for money, do you think there has been any progress in the past year?
Yeah, I mean I think bands are starting to realize… like the bands that are in it just for that reason are starting to realize that it’s a little bit harder and you’re going to see …I think starting to see bands that are in it for the long haul and doing things for the right reasons are the ones that are going to be sticking it out and making careers for themselves.
What is The Sound of Evolution organization that you and your wife started?
Well, that is something I definitely want to do, unfortunately right now I guess where I’m at it’s kind of hard to do it because I’m kind of tied to labels and what not. But it’s pretty much bands and fans of music basically, I feel like there’s been such a lack of respect between musicians and fans because some bands have been coming out and trying to exploit anything they can to get where they need to get and not really care about all the important things– because fans take everything from the music. In some cases it changes their life; it helps them through things and what not. I think that that is a huge thing that people don’t realize, is how every move that we make, it really affects people; and by bands not even caring anymore is why I think people just download music for free, just because there’s so much of it they just steal it and you can see bands are in and out so quickly it’s like how can you keep up with every trend? So it’s like now what the whole thing is hopefully we’ll do one day is have fans be able to pay whatever they want for the music and bands understand that. It’s just, I don’t know; bring the respect back between fans and the music.
http://www.thesoundofevolution.com/
- Maria Burks
