Album Review: The Morning After Girls – Alone
Rating: 7.5/10
To congeal a rock band in with a new, more innocent environment tends to lead to a discord of sorts that forgets the importance of flow and overall cohesion. For The Morning After Girls, no discord exists, just a calm ambient roll with a rock that gently pops its head in and out.
For the five-man group that recorded Alone, up front vocals shifted to the side along with the cosmic electric presence to open the stage up for a natural progression aglow with foot-tapping drums and fuzzy guitar interludes more serene than a rock-oriented group could hope for.
The posh band of Sacha Lucashenko (vocals, guitar), Martin B. Sleeman (guitar, vocals), E.J. Hagen (bass), Anthony Johnson (drums) and Alexander White (keyboard, guitar) grinds with the best on the charts with “Death Processions” and “You Need To Die”, but the real gist of Alone comes on the title track. “Alone” confides in dual vocal presences and an alternative swagger of calmly laid-out instrumental intros.
In simpler terms, the album thrives off of subtle tones, yet the occassional break-out ballad sporadically lets the group’s electric rock talent fly loose. “Who Is They” plays to the best of all that makes Alone worth hearing multiple times through. Each chord in this track begs to be rewound and memorized.
Overall, the album falters only really with the flow, as the aforementioned grinding rock songs “Death Processions” and “You Need To Die” don’t fit as cleanly into the album as they should. Vocals don’t wow, but they aren’t a setback as the multiple assisting vocals aid when the solo aspect becomes the focus.
For more on The Morning After Girls, check out their site. The group is headlining at the Mercury Lounge on July 16 before hitting the West Coast for the start of a nationwide tour.
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