Originally from Melbourne, it’s since transplanting to Sydney that co-guitarists and dual vocalists Sacha Lucashenko and Martin B. Sleeman and drummer Anton Jakovljevic have really found their niche; all of a sudden the band seem to be about to become a simply superb guitar-drenched outfit.

But, before that can happen, the band have compiled their two self-titled EPs, jumbled the track order, and added a fantastic new single (the title cut). “Shadows Evolve” is immediate, and brilliantly deliciously fuzzy guitar rock. While “Hi-Skies” may display elements of a Nirvana-like chorus, it’s the likes of “Shadows Evolve” and “Fall Before Walking” that best exemplify where the morning after girls are coming from., with dreamscape guitars adding to strong grooves.

Ride’s Mark Gardener guests on vocals on that latter tracks, while the six minute drift of opener “Chasing Us Under” finds Sacha murmuring his way through a series of drifts of guitar passages that owe as much to Spiritualized and Spaceman 3 as they do the Brian Jonestown Massacre. For yes, the haunt of my bloody valentine and to a lesser extent the Jesus and Mary Chain on “Always Mine” is all over the Morning After Girls…and that’s a mighty fine thing indeed.

The sound of Shadows Evolve is occasionally too loose for its own good, but promising recent live displays on the back of American and UK tours indicate that the Morning After Girls have tightened their sound up remarkably, with the likes of “Run For Our Lives” now coming out like the pop anthems they threaten to become on this album. Album? Oh, yes, this is an album. It feels like a complete product, and is a fine beginning for the band. You get the sense that the band’s ‘sophomore’ effort is going to be a ripper.