Shadows Evolve

Following the recent release of the Run For Our Lives single, this is the debut album from the Australian quintet. It’s not so much an album as a soundscape, and it takes you on a roller-coaster journey through the world of the Morning After Girls. The name, however, is somewhat misleading as the only girl in the band is Aimee Nash, who some may remember from a brief appearance as a vampiric chanteuse in Queen of the Damned.

Their website blurb informs you that they don’t fall into any categories, and this is a completely accurate description in a very good way. In an era where most albums are about as varied as Status Quo this is a definite breath of fresh air. With so many styles there are obviously going to be a lot of influences, and you can just catch them scattered throughout the assembled tunes as a hint of ’90s here, a nod to the ’80s there and a nice little soup�on of 70s for good measure.

The reviews they’ve been getting that are along the lines of “that’s so ten years ago daahhling” are totally missing the point. For a start there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. Do we really need to listen to more insipid slices of banality that bands like Embrace seem happy to inflict on us?

Describing their sound is next to am impossibility as every track is its own entity and a list of adjectives would take up far too much of this review without getting even halfway there - but psychedelic, distorted, harmonic, spaced-out, dreamy, hypnotic and infectious will do for starters.