Feb 15, 2013 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
“It’s not easy pulling off this kind of instrumental post-rock, but these guys do it with aplomb. A consistently great act. ” – Dom Alessio, Triple J
Feb 15, 2013 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
” Perth six-piece Apricot Rail do the instrumental thing right on ‘Basket Press’, the first single from second album Quarrels. It might show signs of post-rock in its build and classical or folk in its gentle woodwinds, while the guitars recall the more placid...
Feb 15, 2013 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
“The Perth-based six piece shift between pretty melodies and different textures… when was the last time you heard woodwinds on a post rock tune!? The “soft, soft, oh my gawd crescendo” moments are avoided in place of a more reflective listening experience....
Feb 15, 2013 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
“New stuff from Perth’s Apricot Rail is always a good thing, particularly when it sounds like this. “Basket Press”, the first single from the second Apricot Rail record, Quarrels, is a typically restrained track that starts whisper-quiet and builds to something...
Feb 15, 2013 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
“Damn, but latter-day post-rock bands can be dour. Something renders so many of them dry, or scrunched up into a kind of passive-aggressive melodrama. Too many of them belong to the post-Mogwai/Explosions In The Sky faction – increasingly hackneyed building...
Sep 29, 2011 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “To describe [Perth] local band Apricot Rail as a post rock band would be doing them an injustice. While sharing the ethos of post rock, their sound is more than just restricted to post rock (which is inevitable with a scene or a sound as becoming a...
