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Apricot Rail Apricot Rail (Hidden Shoal Recordings) Releasing: out now Most instrumental rock suggests the apocalypse is coming. If it is, Apricot Rail are too busy crafting beautiful lilting melodies to care. This Australian quintet have the charm, humour and songwriting nous -- and a killer live show -- to re-ignite anyone's belief in music's subtle, giddy powers. "The album's (and arguably the band's) crowning achievement has to be 'The Parachute Failure' -- it's spine-tinglingly anthemic and really leaps out at the listener. It so beautifully epitomises the band's key strengths, as evidenced throughout this remarkable debut -- powerful and...

• Apricot Rail - The Parachute Failure