Great Lake Swimmers — Bodies And Minds

The notion of mind/body duality has been debated in philosophy circles since Descartes, and now London, Ontario’s Great Lake Swimmers have joined the fray, but with a strictly musical discourse. To say they’re happier than Sartre is a given, but GLS straddle the line between half-empty and half-full, with songs of longing ("To Leave It Behind"), fantasy ("Falling Into The Sky") and Kafkaesque body-swapping ("Let’s Trade Skins"). Bodies And Minds is where gothic country meets the baroque pop of Red House Painters and though the duality remains a theory in philosophical terms, as an album, it can only be considered a successful amalgam.