I totally dig the album – great collection and music! Well done!! Your Fan, Shno

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.

Perhaps 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

It 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