Spending less than a week in the studio, the band self-produced the sessions, with Lee Muddy Baker handling vocal production.

The album reached number 19 in the UK, and received a mainly favourable response from music critics, with some of them stating it was the better release out of the two mini-albums.

It was spurred on by how they recorded The Night Before,[3] which saw the group upload material to a FTP server that Lee Muddy Baker would edited together.

He had previously joined a writing collective in Los Angeles, California; he theorised that being a part of that aided him in taking more risks with the material on The Morning After.

[8] The opening song "Got the Shakes" is a slow-tempo blues-esque track;[10] it talks about an alcohol-fuelled assault with the man begging his wife for forgiveness.

[10] Booth wrote the song while his mother was on the verge of death in a care home; she was in an hallucinogenic frame-of-mind due to prescribed drugs.

[4] "Kaleidoscope" sees a husband worried that his wife is talking to another lover over the phone, when in reality she's receiving negative news from a doctor[9] that she has cancer.

[22] An Absolute Radio session version of "Dust Motes" was included on the career-spanning box set The Gathering Sound (2012).

[12] The Independent's music critic Andy Gill viewed as a "far superior effort" to The Night Before, complimenting the "subtle songs about devastation" for packing "a powerful punch.

"[9] Record Collector writer Jonathan Scott said the release provided "more focused offerings" that encapsulated the "essence of the band’s best work.

"[11] Renowned for Sound founder Brendon Veevers referred to it as "an intense record", full of "chilling tales of reality mixed amongst fictional masterpieces.

"[10] AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine said the album "succeeds in its own quiet way," when compared to The Night Before, while "maintaining a cool intimate vibe without seeming monochromatic.

"[13] Neil Dowden of musicOMH said the release's "stripped down sound" could come across as a "bit depressing but their muted beauty lingers in the mind.