Apricot Rail’s self-titled debut album has been reviewed on Cyclic Defrost. Visit Cyclic Defrost to read the review in full, or visit Apricot Rail’s reviews section to read this and other review excerpts.
Apricot Rail is available in CD and mp3 format from the Hidden Shoal Store.
Apricot Rail Pouring Milk Out The Window Apricot Rail – Pouring Milk Out The Window
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 an album of exceptionally full-bodied ‘instrumental rock’… the Australian quintet knows what it takes to make a strong impression—passionate playing, compositional smarts, arresting arrangements, and a knack for catchy melodies—all of which the band delivers on its self-titled, fifty-minute debut… If multi-hued post-rock packed with chiming guitars and beautified with woodwinds and horns is your thing, Apricot Rail’s debut collection is definitely worth a closer look.”
Excerpt: “That beautiful organ sound shimmers across much of the recording in a way that can’t help but reawaken memories of classic ’60s bands like The Doors and Procol Harum, but Tarcutta is no decrepit throwback… the album finds the trio in top form, essaying the ebb and flow of aggressive and gentler passages with equal conviction and at no expense to the immediacy of the material’s delivery… The release clearly demonstrates that sixties’ instrumentation doesn’t have to mean sixties’ music.”
This month’s edition of the excellent Textura site has a bumper crop of Hidden Shoal-related goodness. There are glowing reviews of the self-titled debut albums by Tarcutta and Apricot Rail, plus there’s an interview with Clayton McEvoy, AKA Sleeping Me, one of several ‘Six String Alchemists‘ featured.
Tarcutta, Apricot Rail and Sleeping Me’s debut album Cradlesongs are all available from the Hidden Shoal Store.
Tarcutta No Light No Shade Tarcutta – No Light No Shade
