Ongiara

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Total Tracks: 10   Total Length: 43:21

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Lost Channels is better!

driftways

I'm surprised to see this has higher ratings than the better (to my ears) Lost Channels. Both good and deserve a listen, but if you have a choice of Great Lake Swimmers music, Ongiara is not what I would choose.

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The Great Lake Swimmers’ blend of catchy, rural indie pop and brooding north country folk with Low-inspired tempos is like a shot of non-adrenaline. The Toronto outfit’s third full-length album, Ongiara, breaks little ground for the Canadian pine-gazers, but somewhere between bandleader Tony Dekker’s sonorous tenor and cavernous banjo there is a sweet spot that, when engaged, like on the lovely “Backstage with the Modern Dancers,” “Catcher Son,” and “I Became Awake,” could melt the thin ice of Lake Ontario’s shoreline in January. Like fellow sepia-toned Chicago collective the Pinetop Seven, GLS have a gift for melody and atmosphere that is nearly hypnotic, but where the Pinetop gang often shifts the dynamic and runs screaming into the forest, the Swimmers just kind of tread water, resulting in an audio experience that can just as easily infect the listener with drooping eyelids as it can repeated bouts of cathartic Sunday morning contemplation. – James Christopher Monger

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  • 05.23.12 Austin, join us for an in-store performance at @WaterlooRecords at 5:30 tonight! https://t.co/V2rjla8O
  • 05.22.12 Canada: @GreatLakeSwim's 'New Wild Everywhere' is only $8.99 this week at @iTunesMusic http://t.co/ntyqZ0ie
  • 05.17.12 Tune in to @885KCSN tmw in the 9:00am hour (PST) to hear @GreatLakeSwim perform in-studio. Stream live on their site http://t.co/teaR27An
  • 05.17.12 Austin, May 23 at 5:30pm, we'll be playing an in-store at @WaterlooRecords https://t.co/V2rnSKhY See you at 5:30pm!!
  • 05.14.12 Playing the @Amazon HQ in Seattle this afternoon! http://t.co/Sfr3Dr9n
  • 05.14.12 Read @exclaimdotca's interview with Tony Dekker, where he elaborates on the song 'Easy Come Easy Go.' http://t.co/BcTbNd3t
  • 05.13.12 Canada: Tune in to Bravo at 7:30pm tonight for footage & interview with Great Lake Swimmers.
  • 05.11.12 Tune in to @BravoCanada tmw at 7:30pm for footage & intvw w/ @GreatLakeSwim . Watch the making of #NewWildEverywhere http://t.co/KKpqpJB5
  • 05.09.12 Watch footage from the @VancouverAqua in front of the Belugas http://t.co/zWSmBTTu See you again in Vancouver this Friday!
  • 05.09.12 Tune in to @1035thebridge at 3pm today to listen to an interview and performance with @GreatLakeSwim http://t.co/wJrBOBpp
  • 05.07.12 Don't forget to check http://t.co/8k8nO4XM to find out when @GreatLakeSwim will be in your city!
  • 05.05.12 "New Wild Everywhere" is #1 on the @CBCRadio3 R3-30 chart. Thanks for the support!