The Morning Stars
You Can't Change The World
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You can't change the world.
Or can you? The Morning Stars' debut CD "You Can't Change The World", will certainly change yours. Hailing from Hamilton (Canada), brothers Michael Ivic and Mars Ivic, formed the band in 2004.
Drawing from the forefathers of Rock'n'Roll; Beatles, Stones, Cash, Velvet Underground; to the sons and daughters of the musical revolution; Ramones, Joy Division/New Order, Smiths, Stone Roses, Siouxsie and the Banshees; The Morning Stars have delivered a record lush with guitars, in your face beats, a little jingle jangle, punk attitude and pretty melodies you'll be chanting on your way to the show.
It's organic. It's melodic. It's timeless. It's The Morning Stars. So pull up your trousers, button your shirts, and swagger into the limelight.
Visit www.myspace.com/themorningstars to watch THE MORNING STARS album teaser.
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You Can't Change The World
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Impressive!!
author: ShnoI totally dig the album – great collection and music! Well done!! Your Fan, Shno
Promising stuff from chaps you feel were there.
author: Tony Evans (London U.K.)A cool, if not uber cool, album...I get the impression these guys remember when Oasis REALLY had it (cira "Definitely maybe"). Possibly even prior to that, I feel there's a Stone Roses vibe going on. Imho this is not a bad thing, far from it. It's raw but produced, written & played well enough to cut it. On a good enough system it almost sounds like it's live...nice.
Songs of perfect pop with a great sense of melodía
author: Cajaderitmos.comPerhaps between all the bands that populate the Myspace phenomenon, they emphasize few that with listening to their songs occur to know massively. It is a good sample of the power of Internet nowadays, that groups so moved away of us can extend their radius of influence everywhere. The band that occupies to us, The Morning Stars, publishes their debut “You can´t change the world” being perfect strangers stops most of the public, except for the followers of Myspace. This is not impediment some to admit that in his first disc they have songs of perfect pop with a great sense of melodía, given the influences that they themselves admit: Beatles, Velvet Underground, Stone Roses, The Smiths, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and a passion by the brit-pop one that is clearly at some moments. From Hamilton, Ontario (Canada), the Mars brothers and Michael Ivic, next to Devrim Eldeleki and Donn Dixon have invoiced an album that surprises by its clarity of ideas and excellent sound. Produced and made up of they themselves, they offer a clear sound, and they have taken his time since the result is amazing. Everything sounds clear and concise, for the type of music that makes, giving to a solid turn out to be an album debut, something that we did not find every day. Alternating itself in the vocal tasks, Mars and Michael Ivic during nine songs in forty minutes, they offer pleasant moments to us like “Wrong”, a perfect pop song that it floods to you of joy. Other subjects are half times without falling in cloying lands like “Steal my love” or the subject that gives title to the disc, “You can´t change the world” that remembers at some Irish moments the U2 to us. Also they introduce habitual elements little, like the sound of an accordion in “door Waiting AT your”, with exciting vowels and an acoustic guitar. “All coming down” tastes unmistakable to Stone Roses, from tempo to the voice of Michael Ivic imitating the characteristic one fraseado of Ian Brown. But without doubt the best song of the album is “Don´t waste Time”, for which reclamation from here its candidacy to better subject of which we took of year. Evidently, The Morning Stars will not change the world, but it they can do a little more pleasant with this excellent business card. If you are interested in the album, is available through Amazon, iTunes and CD Baby. Carlos Ciurana
note-note-chord-note-note-chord
author: www.Punktv.caIt would be easy to dismiss The Morning Stars as another generic alt rock band, and tracks like “Hearts for the Living” and “Wrong”, despite showing strong songwriting and decent enough playing skill, don’t really do anything new – droning on the point where they all sound almost annoyingly similar to each other. Also to the album’s demerit is that most of the songs on this album also contain that little note-note-chord-note-note-chord effect-laden flighty guitar playing thing floating around in the back of the song that we have all grown long tired of, “Steal My Love” being especially guilty of this tired musical atrocity, and the lyrics, despite the singer sounding refreshingly energetic and lacking any sort of annoying whine in his voice, are too often your typical lost girlfriend-esque melancholy that grows old long before listeners can give the album a decent chance. If you can make it through all this, however, there are rewards and the CD does show some overall promise. The drumming on this album is very enjoyable, and the occasional bass riff appears that really grabs your attention and temporarily elevates “You Can’t Change the World” out of the generic into something that actually feels worth listening to. “Waiting at Your Door” and “All Coming Down” are obvious highlights of the CD, the first relies on a weird accordion-sounding Yiddish dance riff that is very unexpected and pleasing in an album like this, and the latter makes use of a fantastically simple blue-inspired riff that blows everything else on the CD right out of the water. Sure, the band’s best moments sound a little Audioslavey, but if the entire album was filled with songs like these it would be a stand out and recommendable record in the radio-friendly alt rock scene. As would be expected, both tracks also contain the most enjoyable lyrics of the album, and depressingly show a lot of promise that just never comes to fruition. The unfortunate fact about this album is that despite the overall quality of songwriting and the fact that the band is a solid, tightly joined, confident, and well developed one, two tracks is not enough to carry a whole album and the rest of the songs on “You Can’t Change the World” are not strong enough to make it a recommendable release. It is nice to see them trying so hard, and you can tell they care about their music, but even for a debut release this CD only average, and no matter how endearing certain songs are and no matter how close the occasional riff almost comes to lifting this CD out of its rut and making it something special, overall what you have here is just another acceptably formed and almost-enjoyable release that struggles hard to break from its own self induced mediocrity. 5.5/10 Wes Robertson
Sounds like it could very well become a bit of a 'classic'.
author: ToxicPete.co.uk'You Can't Change The World' is the new album from Canadian four piece The Morning Stars. It's one of those albums that covers much ground and sounds like it could very well become a bit of a 'classic'; having been heavily influenced by some of the most successful and long-lived bands and artists over the last forty years, The Morning Stars have shaped their music in the same careful manner with a view to creating their very own brand of melodic, soft-rock music with an eye on musical longevity and global acceptance. 'You Can't Change The World' isn't exactly eclectic but it does contain sufficient, genre-blurring elements to make it accessible to many tastes. Erring distinctly on the 'easy-on-the-ear', nu-country side of pop-rock, 'You Can't Change The World' does indeed sound like a massive pooling of influential styles and sounds into one very listenable fluid reservoir of radio friendly sounds that take in commercial sensibility and probably targets the more mature and discerning ear. The Morning Stars own words sum up their work and this album better than I can, and I therefore quote, "Drawing from the forefathers of Rock'n'Roll; Beatles, Stones, Cash, Velvet Underground; to the sons and daughters of the musical revolution; Ramones, Joy Division/New Order, Smiths, Stone Roses, Siouxsie and the Banshees; The Morning Stars have delivered a record lush with guitars, in your face beats, a little jingle jangle, punk attitude and pretty melodies you'll be chanting on your way to the show." Good words and very accurate ones too! The Morning Stars may not totally appeal to the head-banging rock hoards out there; and that's probably just fine by them as they strive to create their own brand of 'timeless' music. For me, it works extremely well and 'You Can't Change the World' is indeed a work of polished quality which hits its mid-ground target full in the face. It's a beautifully rounded album that's great to just chill to or, turn up the volume, let it rip and be carried along on its flowing waves of musical pleasure, soaking up all its sensitive nuances and subtle rock-ability. With nine really excellent tracks to get off on, 'You Can't Change The World' is massively appealing and a very pleasurable experience. It'll certainly be spending quite a lot of time in my player and in the car.
The Morning Stars create steady rock album.
author: Times and Transcript OnlineThe great thing about this album is that it creates a mood. Rather than directly going into music and vocals, The Morning Stars choose city sounds, yelling and traffic. They then kick off into a steady rock album. This album has great endurance, it stands up and holds out well. While a rock album with little variety can become quite boring, The Morning Stars maintain their quality of sound throughout "You Can't Change The World." The vocals and overall instrumentals are very pleasing, it is easy to tell these guys were heavily influenced by old rock. However, they take their influences and modernize them with class, Kristen Nicholson Published Saturday May 12th, 2007
The title-track is one of the best that the record has to offer.
author: Soulshine MagazineThere's a wee bit of the psychedelic lingering around the edges of the debut effort from Ontario’s Morning Stars. There’s also jangle pop and standard singer-songwriter fare and shoegazer-lite. All in all, the music found on You Can’t Change The World is much more focused than the quartet’s bio would have you believe (that is, the prescribed influences of “the Beatles, Johnny Cash, Velvet Underground”). The title-track is one of the best that the record has to offer, and carries a strong flavour of Oasis (the ‘Stars have even got two brothers sharing songwriting and vocal duties!). With big guitars and an even bigger melody, “You Can’t Change The World” is a beautifully simple love song with the ability to grab ears with its familiar sound. But it’s really the song’s two-minute outro that takes the proverbial cake. Give the Morning Stars’ debut a spin, and see if you can pick out where all their big-name influences come in. Often you can, but sometimes you can’t, and those are the spots where it’d be wise to pay attention. Writer: Jaclyn Arndt
The Morning Stars play with plenty of love and honour.
author: Chart - April 2007In this day and age, it takes a lot to impress with your typical guitar, bass and drums set-up. The standard rock 'n' roll formation has been bled dry a thousand times over, and yet, every now and then you'll encounter a band who uses the status quo to their advantage. Case in point, The Morning Stars. This Hamilton four-piece are hopelessly blasé on paper, but the music the play is anything but. Echoing the best bits of traditional favourites U2 and R.E.M., plus more recent fair like Coldplay, The Morning Stars play with plenty of love and honour, and their efforts pay off handsomely with "You Can't Change The World", an instantly likeable album that holds value in its familiarity. It's straightforward pop-rock with a few indie flourishes and should hold water for years to come, especially the oddly-affecting balladry of "Fall". This is a solid effort from a solid band. Just don't expect any new ground to be broken, on this go-around anyway.
The feeling behind their alt sound harkens farther back to the British invasion
author: Lucid METhe Morning Stars may come from Hamilton, Ontario, but listening to them straight off without knowledge of their origins may leave you surprised. Truly they are an alternative group, but one does not have to listen carefully to mistake for an instant that these are English boys, perhaps something akin to Oasis. Interestingly, two members of the band, vocalist/guitarist Mars Ivic and bassist Michael Ivic are brothers; kind of like the Gallagher brothers I guess. But when you listen to Oasis, there’s something there underneath the music that reflects the backstage bitterness and misbehaviour that UK tabloids go into seizures over. By comparison, The Morning Stars is much sunnier, the feeling behind their alt sound harkens farther back to the British invasion, when the rock sound from across the pond was the new thing. The title track breaks away with a half pop power ballad that reminds you of lazy summer Sundays. This is kick back and relax music; no frills, simple alt-rock jams that are easily listenable.
This is a wonderful sound excursion pulling up rock roots from far and wide.
author: The Rock and Roll ReportFrom that great Get Your Ya’s Ya’s Out feel to opening track and straight ahead Brtipop-style rocker Hearts for the Living to the cool Beach Boys like sweet but sad power pop gem of Wrong to the early U2 sounding Don’t Waste Time and that great chiming Edge-like guitar, this is a wonderful sound excursion pulling up rock roots from far and wide. As usual when throwing out comparisons, your mileage may vary but the descriptions are appropriate if not to describe the style of the music than at least to impart on you the quality of the songs on this CD. Wonderful sonic soundscapes, alternating jangling and crunchy guitar and sweet vocal duties shared by both brothers equally throughout make this CD one of those you will savour as time goes by.
The Morning Stars aren’t afraid of creating dramatic and sometimes majestic anth
author: PopMattersThe Morning Stars aren’t afraid of creating dramatic and sometimes majestic anthems like the title track that would give The Verve or Richard Ashcroft a run for their money. Another plus here is how they rather limit their output to nine strong songs rather than an album with nine goodies and three fillers. The album’s dark horse is the sweet, infectious and quirky “Waiting at Your Door”, but a close second is the Manchester-era sounding “All Coming Down” that resembles the Stone Roses. The Morning Stars fade out with a sweet, harmony-laced “Fall”. Hopefully band will rise and shine with an album as fabulous as this one.
With their solid debut, they'll turn more then a few heads in 2007.
author: POP JournalismEvery track is beautifully mixed with the philosophy of wide-open sounds, with delicious panning and reverb effects. So what do the Morning Stars sound like? Think Bono fronting a poppier version of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, with hints of Brit-pop thrown in for good measure. Current favourites include the slow burning title track which contains the priceless line "nah nah... nah nah, I don't know what to sing here," "Waiting at Your Door" which has a wonderfully placed accordion which will get your head bopping, and "Don't Waste Your Time" which is the feel good song of the year. Overall, the Morning Stars won't change the musical landscape, but with their solid debut, they'll turn more then a few heads in 2007.
These guys have an ear for writing a decent pop song.
author: The Line of Best FitKicking things off is foot stomper "Hearts For The Living", its apparent from the first couple of minutes that these guys have an ear for writing a decent pop song. The mix of harmonies and atmospheric guitar in the chorus is so infectious it gets stuck in your head for hours. Things continue at a steady pace with "Wrong" with its New Order-esque intro it quickly transforms into a 3 minute power pop track that would have fit nicely onto the last Big Star album
The Morning Stars manage to pack a punch into these songs.
author: Rockin the Blues - D.M. WellsAs a mere trio, The Morning Stars manage to pack a punch into these songs, which painlessly average around four minutes in length, so any potential virtuoso posturing is non-existent. Lead/rhythm guitarist Mars and bass guitarist Michael (both of whom also perform on keys and tambourine), alternate on strong lead vocals, although I personally prefer the more upbeat tracks that were lyrically composed and sung by Michael. If you dig the rhythm + melody format popularized by The Beatles, Badfinger, The Kinks, U2, Oasis and The Anger Brothers (a Goddo offshoot), check this out!
The Morning Stars certainly know how to set the tone for excitement.
author: Obscure Sound - Indie Music BlogAs far as the production, the album is quite impressive. The Morning Stars are strictly alternative, classic rock ‘n’ roll, and punk, citing influences such as The Rolling Stones and The Smiths as primary beneficiaries. It certainly shows as well. With boisterous guitars, fascinating bass lines, and constantly lively percussion, The Morning Stars certainly know how set the tone for excitement.