Great Lake Swimmers - "Youth Not Wasted"
Photo by Robert Georgeff For their upcoming album, Canada's Great Lake Swimmers met up in the Ganaraska Forest and tracked it in three days. The latest single from the album, "Youth Not Wasted," is a gorgeous and delicate song that combines folk pop and progressive folk into one sound. It's a sparse and quiet song that is compelling because of how quiet and sparse it is. It's also quite lush considering how bare the song is. Despite the whole recorded in the woods in three days aspect, "Youth Not Wasted" sounds much more modern than you might expect. Great Lake Swimmers have been doing this for over twenty years now, and they continue to blow listeners away with their sound. Founder Tony Dekker says of the band's latest single: " 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 point...