Great Lake Swimmers are already responsible for one of the year's best songs, "Moving Pictures Silent Films," a fragile breakup sketch that opens the band's eponymous 2004 debut album (brought to a wider audience by Misra's nationally distributed 2005 reissue). But Tony Dekker's Canadian quintet had another album ready to go, even as the first was drawing belated buzz. Great Lake Swimmers' sophomore effort, Bodies And Minds, trades the makeshift grain silo studio of its predecessor for the softer acoustics of a country church, and the songs are a little fuller, with banjo, lap steel, and watery organ shading the stark acoustic-guitar-and-percussion outlines. Dekker still counts too much on atmosphere to cover him when he can't complete a melody, but there are more full-on good songs on Bodies And Minds than Great Lake Swimmers, including the sunny, Byrds-synthesizing "When It Flows," the cozily honest "Various Stages," and the intimate, deceptively childlike "Imaginary Bars." Dekker reveals himself to be capable of surprise. He plays timid, then turns around with a classic aching come-on like "Let's Trade Skins." He's set to woo the romantics.