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Ongiara

Great Lake Swimmers

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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.

© James Christopher Monger /TiVo

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1
Your Rocky Spine
00:03:36

Great Lake Swimmers, Producer, MainArtist - Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Harbour Songs Music Publishing Inc. administered by Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Andy Magoffin and T. Dekker, Mixer - Andy Magoffin, Dale Morningstar, Owen Pallett, Engineer - Phil Demetro @ Lacquer Channel, Engineer

2007 Nettwerk Productions 2018 Nettwerk Music Group Inc.

2
Backstage With The Modern Dancers
00:04:28

Great Lake Swimmers, Producer, MainArtist - Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Harbour Songs Music Publishing Inc. administered by Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Andy Magoffin and T. Dekker, Mixer - Andy Magoffin, Dale Morningstar, Owen Pallett, Engineer - Phil Demetro @ Lacquer Channel, Engineer

2007 Nettwerk Productions 2007 Nettwerk Productions

3
Catcher Song
00:04:11

Great Lake Swimmers, Producer, MainArtist - Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Harbour Songs Music Publishing Inc. administered by Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Andy Magoffin and T. Dekker, Mixer - Andy Magoffin, Dale Morningstar, Owen Pallett, Engineer - Phil Demetro @ Lacquer Channel, Engineer

2007 Nettwerk Productions 2007 Nettwerk Productions

4
Changing Colours
00:04:44

Great Lake Swimmers, Producer, MainArtist - Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Harbour Songs Music Publishing Inc. administered by Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Andy Magoffin and T. Dekker, Mixer - Andy Magoffin, Dale Morningstar, Owen Pallett, Engineer - Phil Demetro @ Lacquer Channel, Engineer

2007 Nettwerk Productions 2007 Nettwerk Productions

5
There Is A Light
00:05:06

Great Lake Swimmers, Producer, MainArtist - Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Harbour Songs Music Publishing Inc. administered by Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Andy Magoffin and T. Dekker, Mixer - Andy Magoffin, Dale Morningstar, Owen Pallett, Engineer - Phil Demetro @ Lacquer Channel, Engineer

2007 Nettwerk Productions 2007 Nettwerk Productions

6
Put There By The Land
00:02:43

Great Lake Swimmers, Producer, MainArtist - Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Harbour Songs Music Publishing Inc. administered by Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Andy Magoffin and T. Dekker, Mixer - Andy Magoffin, Dale Morningstar, Owen Pallett, Engineer - Phil Demetro @ Lacquer Channel, Engineer

2007 Nettwerk Productions 2007 Nettwerk Productions

7
I Am Part Of A Large Family
00:04:23

Great Lake Swimmers, Producer, MainArtist - Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Harbour Songs Music Publishing Inc. administered by Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Andy Magoffin and T. Dekker, Mixer - Andy Magoffin, Dale Morningstar, Owen Pallett, Engineer - Phil Demetro @ Lacquer Channel, Engineer

2007 Nettwerk Productions 2007 Nettwerk Productions

8
Where In The World Are You
00:03:49

Great Lake Swimmers, Producer, MainArtist - Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Harbour Songs Music Publishing Inc. administered by Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Andy Magoffin and T. Dekker, Mixer - Andy Magoffin, Dale Morningstar, Owen Pallett, Engineer - Phil Demetro @ Lacquer Channel, Engineer

2007 Nettwerk Productions 2007 Nettwerk Productions

9
Passenger Song
00:04:28

Great Lake Swimmers, Producer, MainArtist - Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Harbour Songs Music Publishing Inc. administered by Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Andy Magoffin and T. Dekker, Mixer - Andy Magoffin, Dale Morningstar, Owen Pallett, Engineer - Phil Demetro @ Lacquer Channel, Engineer

2007 Nettwerk Productions 2007 Nettwerk Productions

10
I Became Awake
00:05:53

Great Lake Swimmers, Producer, MainArtist - Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Harbour Songs Music Publishing Inc. administered by Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Andy Magoffin and T. Dekker, Mixer - Andy Magoffin, Dale Morningstar, Owen Pallett, Engineer - Phil Demetro @ Lacquer Channel, Engineer

2007 Nettwerk Productions 2018 Nettwerk Music Group Inc.

Albumbeschreibung

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.

© James Christopher Monger /TiVo

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