Caught Light Great Lake Swimmers

• 1 One More Dance Around The Sun 04:46
• 2 Wrong, Wrong, Wrong 03:30
• 3 For You To Come Around 03:50
• 4 Youth Not Wasted 04:11
• 5 Endless Detours 04:10
• 6 Running Out Of Time 03:01
• 7 Caught Light 05:32
• 8 A Distant Star 04:11
• 9 The Fledgling Jay 03:30
• 10 All The Best 03:44
• Total Runtime 40:25

Info for Caught Light

Capturing light is not easy: ask any outdoor photographer - one must be ready for fragmentary shifts in illumination. In that spirit, Caught Light, Great Lake Swimmers' ninth album is perhaps their most nimble: be prepared, don't overthink, act fast. Completed in three days, Nashville-style, by producer Darcy Yates (Bahamas), Caught Light was captured in the shortest amount of time Dekker had ever spent making a record and is Great Lake Swimmers' most fully realized album in years.

The record's title track tells "the story of a skydiver who strays off course while in the air, and then takes stock of his surroundings while on the ground in unfamiliar territory," explained Dekker. "The 'caught light' of the song has multiple meanings, in that it implies the metaphor of a mirror reflecting one's life back to one's self; the photographic aspect of light being 'caught' on paper and creating a physical document of the ephemeral; and also the discovery of a lack or a low reservoir, being 'light' on what is needed to make meaningful sense of the predicament of being lost."

Featuring a blend of acoustic instruments, rural soundscapes, and wistful vocals, Great Lake Swimmers are a critically acclaimed indie-folk group led by Tony Dekker. Based in Southern Ontario, the group emerged in the early 2000s with a succession of heavily atmospheric albums recorded in old silos and rural country churches. The music developed in that pastoral warmth, performed and recorded in acoustically resonant and historical locales with a revolving cast of personnel.

Great Lake Swimmers

Great Lake Swimmers
Featuring a blend of acoustic instruments, rural soundscapes, and wistful vocals, Great Lake Swimmers are an indie folk group led by songwriter/vocalist Tony Dekker. The group first appeared in 2003 with a haunting self-titled debut that was recorded in a grain silo and released by Weewerk Records, a small label based in the band's native Toronto. Misra Records picked up the record and released it stateside in April 2005. Recording sessions for Great Lake Swimmers' second album began that same year, with the band taking up residence in an old church in rural southern Ontario. The finished product, Bodies and Minds, was released toward the end of 2006, featuring another blend of homespun folk and lush, intimate Americana.

Ongiara Although already popular in Canada, the band began building a wider audience in 2007 by signing to a new label, Nettwerk, and releasing the well-received Ongiara. The album's first track, "Your Rocky Spine," topped the Canadian indie charts and appeared on the soundtrack to Showtime's Weeds. Such increased attention kept Great Lake Swimmers on tour for the better part of two years, but they still managed to take some time off to record a fourth album. Traveling between multiple locations in the Thousand Islands region and elsewhere in northern New York state, the group hit a creative high peak with Lost Channels, which was released in 2009. The Legion Sessions, an EP featuring live versions of several Lost Channels tunes, also appeared that year. In 2012 Great Lake Swimmers released New Wild Everywhere, their first album to be recorded in a traditional studio. For 2015's A Forest of Arms, the group recorded in studios, small music venues, and a variety of unconventional spaces, including Tyendinaga Cavern and Caves, the oldest natural cavern in Ontario.

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