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Toronto-based band Great Lake Swimmers have announced their latest album, “Caught Light“, is due out October 10 and available to pre-order now. Along with the announcement, the group have released ‘Youth Not Wasted’ as a single which you can listent to below, and announced an extensive tour through Canada and the U.S.

Led by founder Tony Dekker, holed up in the Canadian Ganaraska Forest, between Peterborough and Port Hope, with producer Darcy Yates (Bahamas) and engineer Jimmy Bowskill (Blue Rodeo), the band crafted their ninth album and tracked it in just three days. Pulling from early ’70s folk/pop/rock like Gordon Lightfoot or Dory Previn, and ahead of recording, Dekker declared John Martyn’s 1971 album “Bless the Weather” required listening. Dekker also added that the making of this record has given him “a newly found zeal for not being precious and being more direct.”

On the meaning behind the title and themes throughout, Dekker says, “Where I grew up in a rural part of Niagara Region, on a farm, in the back 40, there was a very small airstrip with a skydiving club. As kids, we’d see these guys jumping out of planes, five, six at a time. Once, one of them landed in the fields around our house. That was such a powerful image to me as a kid: What happens when you don’t land where you intended, when life blows you off course? The phrase “caught light” refers to an unexpected situation where you don’t have as much as you thought you wanted or needed. Early on in the album process, it became apparent that it would be the title track.”

The single ‘Youth Not Wasted’ is a twist on the famous Oscar Wilde quote, “youth is wasted on the young.” Dekker explains, “It suggests that every part of the adventure of youth does in fact matter, and constructs our identities in the present day. It considers the ‘caught light’ of an old photograph, books left unread, and the points to which life’s energy ultimately pushes us. There is an element of taking stock and reflection on life lived to its fullest. It might also be a subtle homage to the early work of John Martyn, a key influence on the album, and particularly on this song.”

The band’s earlier releases from the album include ‘One More Dance Around The Sun‘ and ‘Wrong Wrong Wrong.‘ Dekker says the sunny “One More Dance Around The Sun” evokes, “riding around in the summertime with the windows down — maybe after a solid workday, maybe on route to an epic road trip, or maybe just seeing familiar surroundings with renewed vision. It’s about perseverance, new beginnings, and the searching that invites wisdom and perspective as the planet spins on. “Wrong Wrong Wrong” is about being on the edge, in deep despair, the consolation is that it places trust in the understanding of the listener – it’s almost as if the song is speaking directly to a sympathetic friend.”

Tracks:
01 One More Dance Around The Sun
02 Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
03 For You To Come Around
04 Youth Not Wasted
05 Endless Detours
06 Running Out Of Time
07 Caught Light
08 Distant Star
09 The Fledgling Jay
10 All The Best

Staat er rond 22.00 compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen. Oh ja, MP3 doe ik niet aan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzwvjyNlroA