Great Lake Swimmers‘ warm second album, Bodies and Minds (Weewerk), is filled with songs of heartbreak, rural nostalgia, and the search for spiritual transcendence. The album features gentle, thoughtful compositions and understated instrumentation, while also moving fluidly into alt-country pop territory with sweet harmonies, light orchestration, and even a few up-tempo numbers. The record includes songs about manic depression (“Various Stages“), the sense of a higher power (“Song for the Angels“) and finding spirituality in nature (“I Saw You in the Wild“).

Genre: Folk, Alt-Country, Singer/Songwriter

Sounds Like: Nick Drake, Neil Young, Band of Horses, Cowboy Junkies

“Tony Dekker takes acoustics very seriously. His haunting, somber ballads emit an otherworldly quality, due in no small part to the natural environment in which they’re captured … Natural reverb and folkie arrangements complement Dekker’s soft voice perfectly” - Exclaim!

Song For The Angels

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Bodies And Minds (video)

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Imaginary Bars

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Great Lake Swimmers make wonderfully understated, heart-wrenching music. Led by songwriter-vocalist Tony Dekker, their haunting sound finds its roots in vintage folk and alt-country colourings, shaped by accordion and piano, lap steel and acoustic guitar, with a voice that seems to come from the walls. This self-titled debut album (Weewerk), engineered by Victor Szabo, was recorded over several months in an abandoned grain silo in Southern Ontario. Its echoes of rural and urban landscapes include the ambient sounds of crickets and the Toronto subway.

Genre: Folk, Alt-Country, Singer/Songwriter

Sounds Like: Nick Drake, Neil Young, Band of Horses, Cowboy Junkies

“This is easily the most captivating combination of ghostly vocals, hypnotic songs, and environmental atmospherics since the first two Cowboy Junkies albums. Guaranteed to give goose bumps.” – Exclaim!

Moving Pictures, Silent Films

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I Will Never See The Sun

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