Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Eye Weekly | |
| PopMatters | (6/10) |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.2/10) |
| Toro | (7/10) |
Lost Channels was called a "beautiful" album by both Uptown and The Georgia Straight and "pleasantly inoffensive and well-constructed" by Toro. The band's sound was compared to "the jangly folk-pop of Fleet Foxes hushed intimacy of Iron & Wine".
One reviewer praised the album for "some standout songs" and the "obvious" talent of Tony Dekker, but criticized it for forgoing "much of the mystique that made its predecessor so intriguing" and not having that album's same "lasting appeal". However, the reviewer at the CBC praised the album as being the group's best, saying:
There's a magical, warm quality to the songs on Lost Channels, a richness and collective spirit that hasn't always been present in Great Lake Swimmers' songs. The Swimmers' first two albums, while still lovely, often felt a bit too breakable, that the airy arrangements supporting Dekker's plaintive confessionals might dissolve if you listened too hard. The seeds for a rootsier sound were planted on Ongiara and now they've come into full bloom.The album was a shortlist nominee for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize.
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