Aug 31, 2009 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Apricot Rail has this post rock instrumental lark down pat. As if some fresh breezes wafted down from the West Australian wheat belt this quintet play the line between rock, instrumental soundscape and a border edged skirmish with pop and...
Aug 31, 2009 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “In the same way that any new release from kranky and n5MD guarantees a recording of high quality, anything coming from the Hidden Shoal camp is likewise to be music of a high calibre. And so it is that its latest roster addition, Apricot Rail, delivers...
Jul 20, 2009 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
Apricot Rail succeed where so many other post-rock bands fail because they’re able to get to the point. What genre-defining bands like Explosions In The Sky take eight or nine minutes to do Apricot Rail are capable of in three and a half. This impeccable sense...
Jul 16, 2009 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Apricot Rail do sound a bit like Mogwai meets Múm… This is a song growing in intensity, and a song growing on you every time you spin it. File under ‘happy-sadness’. Skip ‘post’, let’s just say ‘modern...
Jun 25, 2009 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “A hush fell upon the room as guitarist Jack Quirk laid down a twinkling riff, which his fellow band members proceeded to unwrap carefully by sending layer after complementary layer into the crowd. Clarity descended upon the room – the kind of clarity...
Jun 10, 2009 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Like some previously lost pastoral beauty from a quieter more mellowed and tranquil moment from an early 70’s woodland rustic folk scene captured and frozen in time resurfacing and awakening from deep sleep, ‘Pouring Milk Out The Window’ yearns and...
