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For the better part of three albums, Great Lake Swimmers frontman Tony Dekkar has build a musical world of ghostly isolation. Hell, he recorded the band’s debut record in an old silo. His voice is airy and quivering on its own, but Dekkar still soaks it in reverb whenever he can. And though his folk songs tend to trudge along, slow and threadbare, he never loses the listener. There is always the slightest flourish, or a subtle lift in his voice that carries us through these bittersweet dirges.

But Dekkar apparently knows he can’t live off quiet balladry forever. Ongiara , the band’s previous effort, was hushed but far more fleshed out than their previous efforts. It let us know that Great Lake Swimmers were, in fact, a band and not just Dekkar’s work alone. And now, on Lost Channels, Great Lake Swimmers the band have arrived with a newfound vitality, a full-blooded surging sound, and songs sharp with hooks and sweet with immediate melodies. – Prefix Mag

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