Great Lake Swimmers (album)

Great Lake Swimmers
Studio album by Great Lake Swimmers
Released	January 28, 2003 (Original) April 5, 2005 (Re-release)
Recorded	"In an abandoned grain silo," Wainfleet, Ontario, Canada
Genre	Folk rock
Label	weewerk
Producer	Victor Szabo, Tony Dekker
Great Lake Swimmers chronology
Great Lake Swimmers (2003) Bodies and Minds (2005)

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Pitchfork Media	(7.8/10)[2]

Great Lake Swimmers is the eponymous debut album by the Canadian folk rock band Great Lake Swimmers.

The album was recorded over several months in an abandoned grain silo in Southern Ontario.^[3]

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.

The record was issued by weewerk in March 2003, in Europe by Fargo Records in March 2004, and Misra in the USA in April 2005.

Track listing

1. "Moving Pictures, Silent Films" - 5:31
2. "The Man with No Skin" - 5:26
3. "Moving, Shaking" - 5:22
4. "Merge, A Vessel, A Harbour" - 4:44
5. "I Will Never See the Sun" - 3:35
6. "This Is Not Like Home" - 3:45
7. "The Animals of the World" - 5:31
8. "Faithful Night, Listening" - 4:08
9. "Three Days at Sea (Three Lost Years)" - 3:52
10. "Great Lake Swimmers" - 6:45

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