Sep 9, 2011 | Apricot Rail Reviews
“In sorting through the glut of instrumental music releases we receive at The Silent Ballet, it’s rare to come across a single song all by its lonesome and be excited. “Surry Hills” is the first work released by the Perth, Australia-based...
Mar 24, 2011 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Definitely one of the best new pos-rock bands, APRICOT RAIL hails from Perth…. The music of APRICOT RAIL is a unique mix of guitar-lead classic post-rock a la MONO and MOGWAI, extra percussion and, surprisingly maybe, a wind section consisting of...
Feb 8, 2010 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
Apricot Rail’s self titled release was named as the second best release of 2009 by 78 Records in Perth.
Jan 21, 2010 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Fall Electric Reviews, Glassacre Reviews, Mukaizake Reviews, My Majestic Star Reviews, Reviews, Tangled Star Reviews, The Slow Beings Reviews, Toby Richardson Reviews
Excerpt: “Turn the clock back a few years and most people were convinced there was something in the water in WA because of the sheer number of excellent acts who called that piece of Australia home. Fast forward to 2010 and it seems our short attention spans...
Nov 23, 2009 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Fall Electric Reviews, Glassacre Reviews, Mukaizake Reviews, My Majestic Star Reviews, Reviews, Tangled Star Reviews, The Slow Beings Reviews, Toby Richardson Reviews
Excerpt: “This is the rare exhibition of musical aptitude that delights from start to finish, with nary a disappointment to be found. Being tagged by some as Australia’s answer to the British label 4AD, Hidden Shoal (HSR) does indeed specialize in a brand of...
Oct 22, 2009 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “So how exactly do you improve on near perfection…Entrusted with such an unenviable task of enhancing something without need of tinkering, Manzano pulls out the stops hooks the track up to his workbench and armed with his productive spanners...