Emo rock fans put on your Converse high-tops and head on over to the local music emporium to pick up A Man Can Change His Stars by the fresh new group Mourning September. You will like it. Yup.
Mourning September is the latest addition to charge out of the impressive Floodgate Records lineup. Their heartfelt, dramatic, emotional rock will please fans of Dashboard Confessional and Further Seems Forever -- not surprising since James Paul Wisner (FSF and early Dashboard producer) is at the helm of this project.
Lyrically A Man Can Change His Stars explores the fertile fields of faith rather than mine the rocky realms of romance that so many emo bands explore. The song "Lights and Jewels" (dedicated to a friend who died tragically) paints poignant pictures of the joy Christians have amid despair:
Death came like a thief to break her free
And carry her to life
It stole her from all that she loved
And saved her from what could have come
After all of this
I know she saw a door standing open
With lights and jewels and fields forever,
Let her braid a flower in her hair (and there stood the Christ)
She never knew she would see you this soon
Mourning September's A Man Can Change His Stars rocks mightily with a clean sound, beefy production, and artful lyrics that are not trite or cliché. If you are looking for jamming emo/pop/rock with spiritual lyrics this is your ticket. A Man Can Change His Stars even sports a spiffy cover, a young man's silhouette chock-full o' stars!
Other coverage for this album
HM Magazine #109Reviewed by David StaggMourning September is good at what they do. The Tulsa, OK quartet's debut CD A Man Can Change His Stars has the witty, repeated phrases that get stuck in your head. It has the clever, well-written guitar lines. It has the multiple singers. But what it absolutely has to have is the ability to separate itself from every other band that they sound like—and though the CD is a solid genre-figurehead,…Decapolis September 2004Reviewed by Phil NicholsIt was a dark and stormy night. The sun had almost completely vanished beneath the blood red horizon. Darkness softly crept over the land, hiding the rain clouds so that each liquid spear cast down seemed to be descending from an infinite, black abyss. Lightning flashed, illuminating the desolate sky, followed abruptly by rolling thunder, rending the silence and rattling the windows of Dr.…
