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Great Lake Swimmers
Released 2005

Song For The Angels
05:19
4,289 plays

Various Stages
04:11
4,044 plays

Bodies And Minds
03:48
3,376 plays

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- 1
- Song For The Angels
- 05:19
- 4,289 plays

- 2
- Let's Trade Skins
- 05:24
- 3,116 plays

- 3
- When It Flows
- 03:34
- 3,181 plays

- 4
- Various Stages
- 04:11
- 4,044 plays

- 5
- Bodies And Minds
- 03:48
- 3,376 plays

- 6
- To Leave It Behind
- 04:05
- 2,687 plays

- 7
- Falling Into The Sky
- 03:05
- 2,642 plays

- 8
- Imaginary Bars
- 02:23
- 3,304 plays

- 9
- I Saw You In The Wild
- 03:47
- 3,041 plays

- 10
- I Could Be Nothing
- 05:16
- 2,923 plays

- 11
- Long Into The Evening
- 05:44
- 2,442 plays

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album review

Released just five months after their acclaimed self-titled debut, the Canadian indie folk collective's sophomore release treads the same cold waters as before, but with a batch of songs that are as confident as they are heartbroken. Listeners who felt drawn to singer/songwriter Tony Dekker and fellow Swimmers tales of northern woe the first time around will likely find the more band-oriented Bodies and Minds to be an improvement. Like the Cowboy Junkies before them, the tracks were recorded in a church (the previous release found the group crammed into a silo), resulting in an intimacy that feels both peaceful and urgent. Dekker's vocals are less shaky this time around, and his glorious falsetto, which salutes Thom Yorke and Neil Young without ever coming off as derivative, bounces off of the cathedral walls with such quiet grandiosity that one barely notices the subtle banjo, electric guitar, and brushed snare drum that propel it. Granted, the Swimmers songs and overall style are by no means ground-breaking ("Let's Trade Skins" and "Various Stages" echo the Scud Mountain Boys with their deep Wurlitzer underbelly, while "Song for the Angels" sounds like a Red House Painters song circa 1993), but they're well on their way to cementing them with both feet into the "wet as a highway during mayfly season" sadcore genre. ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide