CREDIT: JEREMY JANSEN
Dinosaur Bones play The APK in London on November 19.

I write about random things a lot. I write a lot about random things. From time to time, it's easy to see how Fanshawe fits as a fixture in the local music scene in London. It's little surprise that we frequently have a high calibre of artists appearing here, of course, but occasionally it affords us an opportunity to see great bands return to the city more frequently as they play for us and at a more central venue nearby.

One such group is Dinosaur Bones, returning to London in concert at The APK on November 19 with Brendan Canning. The show is part of a 10-date tour that sees the band — frontman Ben Fox and Josh Bryne on guitar, bassist Branko Scekic, keyboardist David Wickland and drummer Lucas Fredette — on the road for the last half of the month, playing cities in the West for the first time in support of their latest album.

Released August 13 by Dine Alone Records, Shaky Dream ironically features the band at their most lucid and cohesive on tape to date; when you consider the album title along with the slow dulcet groove in tracks like “Dreamer's Song” and their lead single “Sleepsick,” it could be easy to expect a sleepy concept album.

But such couldn't be further from the truth; while the album came together in such a cognitive, tidy manner, it owes more to the chemistry that the quintet have come to share than to any preconceived plan to control the scope or direction of the final record.

“That was the hope, anyway,” joked Fox, decidedly not one to knock serendipity. “For me, honesty is important, and speaking from the heart — I haven't found a concrete theme that I would want to write 10 or 12 songs around that wouldn't feel at least slightly disingenuous, or that would distract from other things I'd like to explore.”

According to Fox, the band's first and foremost concern was finding a suitable environment to invest themselves in their work. “We knew that we wanted to get out of Toronto,” he said, away from the day-to-day distractions of family, girlfriends or even day jobs.

Their choice led them to work with John Congleton in Texas, far removed from everyday life in Canada. There, the band were able to allow their recordings to evolve free from interference; tracks like “Go Free” and “Career Criminal” demonstrate well how the members added their individual voices to Fox's outlines, the rhythms pulling gently on each other in almost asymmetrical ways.

Eager to take their album on the road, Fox alluded to the underlying excitement within the group at the premise of playing Shaky Dream to audiences they haven't seen since making their sojourn south to record.

“We have a huge amount of respect for Brendan, it's going to be fun,” he said. “We're going to a whole bunch of places that we haven't been to, we're excited to play this new album for people across Canada and beyond.”

For more on Dinosaur Bones' album Shaky Dream or current tour with Brendan Canning, visit them online at dinosaurbones.ca or follow along on Twitter @dinosaur_bones. While you're at it, check out Canning's acclaimed new album You Gots 2 Chill, released only last month.

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