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  • When The Storm Has Passed b/w Moonlight, Stay Above
    1. When The Storm Has Passed
    2. Moonlight, Stay Above

  • Uncertain Country
    1. Uncertain Country
    2. When The Storm Has Passed
    3. I Tried To Reach You
    4. Since January
    5. Swimming Like Flying
    6. On A Ship
    7. Moonlight, Stay Above
    8. Riverine
    9. Quiet Before The Storm
    10. Into It
    11. Promise Of Spring
    12. Think, Think
    13. Respect For All Living Things
    14. Flight Paths
    15. Am I Floating In The Air

  • Great Lake Swimmers (2005)
    1. Moving Pictures, Silent Films
    2. The Man With No Skin
    3. Moving, Shaking
    4. Merge, a Vessel, a Harbour
    5. I Will Never See the Sun
    6. This Is Not Like Home
    7. The Animals of the World
    8. Faithful Night, Listening
    9. Three Days At Sea (Three Lost Years)
    10. Great Lake Swimmers

  • Bodies And Minds (2005)
    1. Song for the Angels
    2. Let's Trade Skins
    3. When It Flows
    4. Various Stages
    5. Bodies and Minds
    6. To Leave It Behind
    7. Falling Into the Sky
    8. Imaginary Bars
    9. I Saw You in the Wild
    10. I Could Be Nothing
    11. Long Into the Evening

  • Ongiara (2007)
    1. Your Rocky Spine
    2. Backstage With the Modern Dancers
    3. Catcher Song
    4. Changing Colours
    5. There Is a Light
    6. Put There By the Land
    7. I Am Part of a Large Family
    8. Where in the World Are You
    9. Passenger Song
    10. I Became Awake

    The Great Lake Swimmers' blend of catchy, rural indie pop and brooding north country folk with Low-inspired tempos is like a shot of non-adrenaline. The Toronto outfit's third full-length album, Ongiara, breaks little ground for the Canadian pine-gazers, but somewhere between bandleader Tony Dekker's sonorous tenor and cavernous banjo there is a sweet spot that, when engaged, like on the lovely "Backstage with the Modern Dancers," "Catcher Son," and "I Became Awake," could melt the thin ice of Lake Ontario's shoreline in January. Like fellow sepia-toned Chicago collective the Pinetop Seven, GLS have a gift for melody and atmosphere that is nearly hypnotic, but where the Pinetop gang often shifts the dynamic and runs screaming into the forest, the Swimmers just kind of tread water, resulting in an audio experience that can just as easily infect the listener with drooping eyelids as it can repeated bouts of cathartic Sunday morning contemplation. Read more on Last.fm.

  • Lost Channels (2009)
    1. Palmistry
    2. Everything Is Moving so Fast
    3. Pulling On a Line
    4. Concrete Heart
    5. She Comes to Me in Dreams
    6. The Chorus in the Underground
    7. Singer Castle Bells
    8. Stealing Tomorrow
    9. Still
    10. New Light
    11. River's Edge
    12. Unison Falling Into Harmony

    Lost Channels is an album by Canadian folk rock band Great Lake Swimmers, scheduled for release March 31, 2009. Guest musicians appearing on the album include Serena Ryder, Bob Egan, Erin Aurich of A Northern Chorus and Paul Aucoin of Hylozoists. The album was recorded in a variety of locations in and around the Thousand Islands, including Singer Castle near Hammond, New York, the Brockville Arts Centre in Brockville, Ontario and St. Brendans Church in Rockport, Ontario. It is named for the Lost Channel, a spot in the Thousand Islands where a reconnaissance boat from a British warship went missing in 1760. The album's first single, "Pulling on a Line", was released as a preview track on Stereogum in January 2009. Read more on Last.fm.

  • New Wild Everywhere (2012)
    1. New Wild Everywhere

    Canada's Great Lake Swimmers may not engender the endless praise ascribed to critical darlings like Fleet Foxes or Bon Iver, but what the Toronto quintet lacks in dazzle, it more than makes up for with authenticity. New Wild Everywhere, the group's fifth full-length outing, offers up another solid, if predictable batch of warm, contemplative, country-folk pop that seamlessly blends the rootsy, sunset melancholy of Gram Parsons, the smoky, Adirondack sheen of Joe Pernice's Scud Mountain Boys and the earthy grace of the Cowboy Junkies. Understated, yet undeniably lush (the band chose to record in a proper studio, rather than employ their usual field recording method), stand-out cuts like the languid "Cornflower Blue" and "On the Water," and the rolling, Automatic for the People-era R.E.M.-infused title track feel homey and safe, like flames licking the walls of a fireplace. New Wild Everywhere may not bring anything new to the table, but what It does bring, as is the case with the best comfort food, has been honed to perfection. Read more on Last.fm.