Oct 3, 2009 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “The sun-splashed instrumental rock Apricot Rail delivers on its 2009 self-titled LP isn’t all-bombast all the time. Rather, the Australian outfit structures carefully these colorful compositions, so that woodwinds, strings, and dusty organ sounds are...
Sep 23, 2009 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “It provides powerful, focused guitar swells as in Wadnama, but also introspective, vaguely electronic keyboard and glockenspiel deliberations on tracks like Trout Fishing In Australia. Vocals are used sparingly but effectively on Car Crash, which...
Sep 19, 2009 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Their self-titled album is a very poignant and layered affair; a piece of art that attempts to paint pictures with ambient noise, chiming chords, simple brass and the occasional glock. At times the music is soft and introverted, as the elegantly titled...
Sep 13, 2009 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Australian-based label Hidden Shoal Recordings have unearthed a number of great talents around the world in recent years. With Apricot Rail, the label have stuck with their countrymen who have produced an interesting, largely instrumental debut…...
Sep 9, 2009 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Apricot Rail make their debut with an almost purely instrumental self-titled album, which, if it wasn’t for the lightness, easily would be labelled post-rock. But charmingly enough Apricot Rail doesn’t make it that easy. [A] delicate, and...
Sep 7, 2009 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “It is not the fact that they are a mainly instrumental act with their feet firmly in the post rock camp that is the surprise, the thing that sets them apart is just how damn good they are for a band that are so young…Apricot Rail’s debut album is the type...
