The Morning After Girls

PRELUDE: EP’S 1 & 2 | Rainbow Quartz  
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  February 14, 2006
3.0 3.0 Stars

MORNING AFTER GIRLS Frustrated fans of the Dandy Warhols uniteHave the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre been neglecting their fans Down Under? The young psych-pop believers in this new Sydney-based outfit — currently in the midst of their biggest American tour yet, opening for their kindred spirits in Black Rebel Motorcycle Club — sound as if they’d formed a band just to give frustrated Warhols heads in Australia a reason to take in some live music. They’re great listeners: “Always Mine,” a highlight from this collection of tracks from the Morning After Girls’ first two EPs, throbs with the same sweet-and-sour menace that drives the Dandys’ music; the song (barely) maintains a blissed-out balance between Martin B. Sleeman’s vocal melody and the buckets of guitar fuzz that keep threatening to drown Sleeman out. And they can pull out a slow one when it’s needed: The gently country-fried “Lazy Greys” is a perfect balm for the pains of that godforsaken period advertised by the group’s name. Maybe Australia can take care of itself just fine.

The Morning After Girls + Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | Avalon, Lansdowne Street, Boston | Feb 17 | 617.931.2000.

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