Great Lake Swimmers
Lost Channels

There are very few voices in this world that cut as deeply as Tony Dekker’s, and if any could fill up a hollow place, it would be his. Perhaps seeking...

Many a moment at rock club, record store, dive bar, and web forum has been wasted arguing over what the word "indie" means any more, or ever meant-- w...

Some albums leave you so utterly enthralled that you are scared to play anything else by the band in case of disappointment ? 'Ongiara? by Canada?s Gr...

I shall open with a candid admission. Toronto’s Great Lake Swimmers is the only band in my recollection that has literally put me to sleep in a live s...

Last time we checked in with Great Lake Swimmers, their third album, Ongiara, widened the instrumental palate they used to paint their pictures, even ...

An album mixing up melodic folk rock with moments of Van Occupanther harmonies through visitations of banjo and fiddle to the polite wrist-slashing me...

Sweet-sounding seventies alt-country/folk has been hitting it seriously big in the last year or two, with the success of such acts as Fleet Foxes (QRO...

‘Lost Channels’ captures a band with a gift - half haunting, half haunted Great Lake Swimmers produce rich alt. folk arrangements that combine the woo...

Canadian folk-pop really is in a rude state of health at the moment, and hot on the heels of the rather marvellous latest opus from Wood Pigeon comes ...

What the hell happened to Tony Dekker It's like he and his Great Lake Swimmers have finally woken up after years of peaceful, acoustic slumber. The b...