The Great Lake Swimmers' blend of catchy, rural indie pop and brooding nort… Read Full Bio ↴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.
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Ongiara
Great Lake Swimmers Lyrics
Backstage With the Modern Dancers Backstage with the modern dancers She was stretching her arm…
Catcher Song Well the ropes are taut, And the stories have all been…
Changing Colours You look at me with uncertainty You look at me with…
I Am Part of a Large Family I am fighting and I am fighting Kicking and screaming and…
I Became Awake I became awake From a very dark place Patchwork of fear of…
Passenger Song One thing I'll say for the less traveled way Doesn't have…
Put There By the Land There's a mark on my hand put there by the…
There Is a Light There is a light in you, I have fallen into There…
Where in the World Are You I've been looking in churches and looking in bars Thought th…
Your Rocky Spine I was lost in the lakes And the shapes that your…