’New Wild Everywhere’ is the follow-up to Canadian band Great Lake Swimmers’ critically acclaimed, Polaris Music Prize shortlisted and Juno award nominated 2009 album ’Lost Channels’. Their fifth album in just under a decade, this new collection of 12 tracks reveals a depth and maturity previously only hinted at by lead singer and songwriter Tony Dekker.

Featuring the touring band from Lost Channels (with long-time collaborator Erik Arnesen on banjo and guitar, along with new addition Miranda Mulholland contributing backing vocals and violin, Bret Higgins on upright bass, and drummer Greg Millson), New Wild Everywhere thematically picks up where the previous album left off, exploring transcendence in the natural world to describe the universal themes of love, mortality and escape.

The band has received public endorsements by the likes of Feist, Robert Plant and cyclist Lance Armstrong. Josh Groban has been known to open his show with a Great Lake Swimmers cover, and the band has shared the stage with such varied artists as Calexico, Sarah Harmer, Bela Fleck & The Sparrow Quartet, Sloan, Goldfrapp and Bill Callahan (Smog).

Great Lake Swimmers – ‘New Wild Everywhere’ is out on Friday April 6th 2012 through Nettwerk/Shock.