TThe Morning Stars are a gift –
at least that’s how it starts.

Because when a surprise birthday party is organised for drummer Sebastian Vogel to help him cross the inner threshold into the new year of life, his friends Barbara Morgenstern, Alex Paulick and Felix Müller-Wrobel thought: maybe he needs a new band.

And so they decided to give him one.

The four of them have known each other for many years from playing together and working on projects with their bands Kreidler, Coloma, Morgenstern’s solo project and Kante. Their paths crossed again and again in different constellations and in different places, so it immediately felt familiar when they finally stood together in a Berlin rehearsal room for the first time.

The first sessions quickly developed into pieces, pieces became songs, often enriched with polyphonic vocals. The music-making is decidedly free, yet harmonious and equal, based on a shared history and shared musical passions: influences from Kraut and post-rock can be heard in Sebastian Vogel’s drum patterns; Alex Paulick’s fretless bass and Felix Müller-Wrobel’s often percussive guitars interweave with them to form bouncy grooves, around which Barbara Morgenstern spreads out her keyboard pads. The English harmony vocals above, on the other hand, sometimes lend the music a light touch of Americana, as if a warm wind from the West Coast had carried it into the songs.

After several months of songwriting and rehearsing, The Morning Stars rented the LowSwing Studio in Kreuzberg to record their first seven songs with Guy Sternberg. They were further developed and mixed in Alex Paulick's studio, then mastered by Norman Nitzsche, and will now be released on January 16, 2026, as The Morning Stars' first album. Musically, this ranges from fragile, atmospheric songs like “Like This” to minimal, Talking Heads-style stop-and-go funk in “One Of the Doors” and "Trap" to anthemic indie and post-rock crescendos such as in “Can't Stand Up” or the final song on the record, “The Everything,” from which the album title “A Hymn Without a Sound” is taken.

It has become an album of timeless brilliance, which nevertheless carries its own unique sparkle in its polyphony.  

Recorded by Guy Sternberg at LowSwing Studio, Berlin
Mixed by Alex Paulick at Spatialtone, Berlin
Mastered by Norman Nitzsche at MOKIK Studio, Berlin
Album cover, layout and graphic design by Marta Ricci
All songs written by The Morning Stars