Midwinter Swimmers

The first album from The Innocence Mission in five years, Midwinter Swimmers sounds immediately like an old friend. At the same time it feels like a new kind of adventure for the beloved Pennsylvania band of high school friends Karen Peris, Don Peris, and Mike Bitts, having both an expansive, cinematic quality and a lo fi, strange beauty of a newly discovered vintage folk pop album. Early reviews have called Midwinter Swimmers a truly special album, linking it especially with Befriended, the band's classic LP from 2003. Songwriter Karen Peris looks closely at every day moments as miraculous worlds of their own, with a particular sense of place and detail, as a way of joining in a conversation with other people about universal experiences of change and loss, and of love, hope and gratitude.

Track List

1. This Thread Is a Green Street
2. Midwinter Swimmers
3. The Camera Divides the Coast of Maine
4. John Williams
5. We Would Meet in Center City
6. Your Saturday Picture
7. Cloud to Cloud
8. A Hundred Flowers
9. Sisters and Brothers
10. Orange of the Westering Sun
11. A Different Day