Have 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.
