Meanwhile, an older non-album track, âSee You On the Moon,â can be heard on prime time television in a Honda ad. It debuted at #10 on Billboardâs Heatseekers Chart in its first week, re-entering the Top 10 in May, and was #1 on the Amazon MP3 downloads chart. It also attained the #2 Most-Added position at the influential radio trade magazine Friday Morning Quarterback.
That Lost Channels was a success in Canada is no surprise: Great Lake Swimmers have long been a word-of-mouth favourite for whom critical mass was inevitable, and they are regarded as a national treasure by the countryâs public broadcaster, the CBC Lost Channels recently topped the chart on CBC Radio 3 (which is also broadcast in the U.S. For a project that has seen a slow upward trajectory since its humble beginnings in 2001, the Great Lake Swimmers are suddenly getting exponentially more attention across North America and Europe, entrancing newcomers to the band with Dekker's unforgettable voice and compelling songwriting. Websites: When Great Lake Swimmers' Tony Dekker wrote the song Everything is Moving So Fast, he couldn't have predicted that it would foreshadow the rapid success of the Toronto band's fourth album, Lost Channels. Written by: T.Dekker / Great Lake Swimmers
* many many thanks to the band's manager and (weewerk)'s deus ex machina, Phil Klygo, Tony Dekker and the band * Spiritual folk of the most affecting variety - StylusĪ remarkably haunting, heartfelt folk-pop sound, mixing ambient textures with skilful instrumental interplay - Eye Weekly Sparse, folk-tinged melancholy.gorgeous music - LAS Magazine Starkly evocative and melodically melancholic.simple, yet stirring - Paste Magazine The band is built around the singer-songwriter Tony Dekker and their style has been compared to Red House Painters, Nick Drake, Iron & Wine and Neil Young, as well as Will Oldham and Sufjan Stevens.ĭekker, shy and introverted, with an extraordinary musical as well as human sensitivity, list Gram Parsons and Hank Williams as influences.Ī wonderful atmosphere/minimalist well done! - New York Times The group has been recently honoured at the Juno Awards in the roots & traditional album of the year and at the Canadian Music Week in the best folk album. A band like Great Lake Swimmers shouldn't really need an introduction, but if you've never heard of them, here we are.
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