Great Lake Swimmers - New Wild Everywhere

  by Jamie Rowland

published: 28 / 2 / 2012

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Review

'New Wild Everywhere' is a great album to drive to; when the early-morning sun is coming in through the windows, bathing you in its warming glow as Great Lake Swimmers’ gorgeous, sweeping music fills the space around you. It would probably be ten times more impressive if you were driving anywhere other than the A228 between Maidstone and West Malling, where I was listening to it. Great Lake Swimmers’ second album is country-infused Americana at its best – which is odd, as they’re actually Canadian, although singer/songwriter Tony Dekker has noted Gram Parsons and Hank Williams among his influences. It’s easy to see why the band have become firm favourites of fans and artists alike, with Feist and Robert Plant asking them to open for them on tours in the last couple of years. Every song on 'New Wild Everywhere' has a rich, cinematic quality; it feels like an event unto itself, an album where you can put everything else aside and just listen. With an album like this, it’s hard to pick stand-out tracks, because you really get the sense that the album was written as one whole piece rather than being a selection of separate songs. Having said that, ‘The Knife’ makes the hands on the back of my neck stand up, so I guess that says something about it. Going back to and pulling together a few things I’ve said before; when I did listen to this album in my car, I hesitated a few minutes once I’d reached my destination before I turned the stereo off; just like a good film, it’s hard to turn this record off halfway through – once you’ve started it, you want to listen right through to the end. And then probably start over again.

Track Listing:-

1 Think That You Might Be Wrong
2 New Wild Everywhere
3 The Great Exhale
4 The Knife
5 Changes with the Wind
6 Cornflower Blue
7 Easy Come Easy Go
8 Fields of Progeny
9 Ballad of a Fisherman's Wife
10 Quiet Your Mind
11 Parkdale Blues
12 On the Water
13 New Wild Everywhere
14 The Great Exhale
15 Easy Come Easy Go
16 Les Champs De Progéniture
17 I Will Never See the Sun
18 Something Heavy
19 What Was Going Through My Head
20 Easy Come Easy Go

Band Links:-

http://www.greatlakeswimmers.com/
https://twitter.com/greatlakeswim
https://www.facebook.com/greatlakeswim
https://www.youtube.com/user/GreatLake
https://plus.google.com/10400125579799

Label Links:-

http://www.nettwerk.com/
https://www.facebook.com/nettwerkmusic
https://twitter.com/Nettwerkmusic
https://www.youtube.com/user/NettwerkM
https://instagram.com/nettwerkmusic/