The Morning After Girls - Alone

In the world today there are so many distractions that there are no chances to be alone, truly alone.  This is the headspace we were in when we wrote the record” says vocalist/guitarist Sacha Lucashenko of the morning after girls.  Alone is the band’s new full-length for Xemu records (Dead Meadow, Spindrift) and their first official output since 2005’s self titled album.  Recorded in a church in the outback of Australia and mixed by Alan Moulder (My bloody valentine, Interpol, in London. Inspired by their time living in New York, Alone seems like an album out of time and space. Taken as a whole work their sound is connected with beautiful melodies, sublime harmonies, shimmering guitars and a cavernous reverb that touches everything.  Elements of twee psychedelia, communal bliss shoegaze, sharp acoustic passages and even the ominous mood of 80’s goth permeate the album.  
Originally hailing from Melborne Australia, The Morning After Girls was formed in 2001 after Lucashenko and Sleeman met through a mutual friend.  In 2005 a collection of their initial ep’s were collected in a self titled album on Rainbow quartz records in the U.S.  Critics took to the music with tastemaker sites like prefix mag.com writing that “The Morning After Girls have managed to create music that blurs the line between the familiar and something quite special you haven’t heard before.”  the band toured across the world with artists including The Church, The Black keys, Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown massacre. In the midst of their move to New York, Lucashenko and Sleeman recorded Alone.  Sleeman recalls “It was in a refurbished church that our friends made into a studio. They kept the basic internal design, the main drum room is in the highest part of the chuch which got this huge echo. There was two ambient room mics hanging from the highest beam of the church which captured this natural cavernous effect.  We used them on everything, there’s no digital effects on the album at all.”  Luchensko says “i’m not a religious man but there was a spirit to that place that left a stamp on these songs.”

Tracklisting:

1. A New Silence
2. The Best Explanation
3. The General Public
4. Alone
5. Death Processions
6. Part of Your Nature
7. You Need to Die
8. To Be Your Loss
9. There's a Taking
10. Still Falling
11. Who is They
12. Tomorrow's Time

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