Great Lake Swimmers (album)

2003 studio album by Great Lake Swimmers

Great Lake Swimmers

Studio album by

Great Lake Swimmers

Released| January 28, 2003
Recorded| "In an abandoned grain silo," Wainfleet, Ontario, Canada
Genre| Folk rock
Length| 48:39
Label| weewerk
Producer| Victor Szabo, Tony Dekker
Great Lake Swimmers chronology
|  | Great Lake Swimmers
(2003)  | Bodies and Minds
(2005)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
Allmusic| [1]
Pitchfork Media| (7.8/10)[2]

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

The album was recorded over several months in an abandoned grain silo in Dekker's hometown of Wainfleet, 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 United States in April 2005.

## Track listing

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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

## References

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1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ Pitchfork Media review
3. ^ "Dekker's music is his art". Welland Tribune, July 12, 2003.

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Great Lake Swimmers

* Tony Dekker
* Erik Arnesen
* Bret Higgins
* Ryan Granville-Martin
* Kelsey McNulty

* Julie Fader
* Colin Huebert
* Greg Millson
* Miranda Mulholland
* Mike Overton
* Sandro Perri
* Joshua Van Tassel
* Darcy Yates

Studio albums|

* Great Lake Swimmers (2003)
* Bodies and Minds (2005)
* Ongiara (2007)
* Lost Channels (2009)
* New Wild Everywhere (2012)
* A Forest of Arms (2015)
* The Waves, the Wake (2018)
* Uncertain Country (2023)

EPs|

* Hands in Dirty Ground (2006)
* Live at the Church of the Redeemer (2007)
* The Legion Sessions (2009)
* Swimming Away (2016)
* They Don't Make Them Like That Anymore (2017)
* Side Effects (2018)

Labels|

* Weewerk
* Nettwerk

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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