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 sports husky male/female harmonies… Flute, clarinet, melodica and trumpet round-out the arrangements, layering melodies and creating tremendous variety amongst the songs. Imagine the ethereal pop of early Múm, the whimsy of Sigur Rós’ more optimistic moments, and (occasionally) the emotional edge of The Twilight Sad. This is consummate indie post-rock laced with Australiana, and well worth checking out.”

Rave Magazine

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 ‘If You Can’t Join Them, Beat Them’, while at others songs take a more urgent, somewhat heavy approach such as opener ‘A Public Space’… The lads [and lass!] have put together the foundations for a very interesting record… they should be highly commended.”

Drum Media

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… the use of woodwind instruments provide a pastoral beauty and by third track, ‘If You Can’t Join Them, Beat Them’ the Perth outfit nail an individual sound with aching melodies to the fore.”

Leonard’s Lair

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 somewhat melancholic yet playful approach.”

Luna Kafé