CREDIT: SNI
Emilie Mover is performing with Megan Bonnell and Ivory Hours at the London Music Club on January 30.

I write about random things a lot. I write a lot about random things. Sometimes writing about concerts coming to London is easier than others, and in a case like this week the correlation between working hard and achieving your dreams is so obvious I'm going to let you draw it yourself ... just let me tell you why you won't be sorry to save Thursday night for an evening of live music.

On January 30 the London Music Club welcomes Megan Bonnell and Emilie Mover, two of the strongest and brightest young songstresses on Toronto's Nevado Records. Both have celebrated an album release in the last year and are sure to make an impact on audiences on tour together over the next couple of weeks.

Megan Bonnell first appeared in Interrobang online during NXNE in 2011; the singer made appearances in showcases and an intimate outdoor performance, turning heads on the strength of her Maps EP.

Released on October 15, Bonnell's debut full-length Hunt + Chase is unapologetic and unafraid; the album marries the raw emotion of Emily Haines with the melodic dexterity of Leslie Feist, and after opening tracks “Coming Home” and “Found You” catch and hold your attention, you'll barely notice the clock until the record has finished.

Though you mightn't realize it, you may already have a history with Emilie Mover — her instantly recognizable single “Don't Fence Me In” has graced commercials for Dodge vehicles for months, and she's been on the greater public radar even longer.

Her most recent album released was October's Sings Peggy Lee — Mover's tribute to the great jazz chanteuse even afforded her a chance to record with her father — however 2013 was an entire year of milestones that also included releasing her full-length Mighty Time in the spring and winning a JUNO Award for her 2012 children's record The Stella and Sam Album, in support of which she performed selected dates with Fred Penner.

“Who knows why we're attracted to what we're attracted to, right?”Mover laughed when asked about the choices that have steered her career. She spoke by phone, taking a break from a video editing session in Toronto. “It's always been good to me, not having a plan; if you don't have a plan of exactly what you want to do, you might end up doing something you never thought you would. And life is more fun.”

Mover says her focus going forward in 2014 is to return to writing and begin a new album, borrowing an expression from her mother to describe her process as “going to the well” — the result is as much a product of the journey as the destination, and Mover makes the journey by immersing herself in thought, music and art.

“I think about this sometimes: when you think of all art, you're really only talking about a few subjects,” she posited. “Fear and love, time passing, things changing ... there aren't actually that many things to write about. So what I do is spend a good chunk of time re-evaluating those main themes in life. And reading and writing, looking at art … that's half of it for me, just intake.”

“I'm very much at the beginning of the writing head space,” Mover continued. “When it comes to songs that I want to put out on an album, it takes me a long time. You want to make something that's fulfilling, but you also want to make something that's real, and sometimes it takes a long time to channel in to a new real thing, or to find a new way of saying what you've always meant.”

Though Mover may be working a while on a new album, in the meantime we can expect the premiere of her new video for “Ride with the Tide” — which you may recognize from an episode of HBO's Girls — and a special EP of alternate takes on six tracks from Mighty Time, recently mixed for release by Sandro Perri.

For more on Emilie Mover, visit emiliemover.com or follow along on Twitter @emiliemover. Also worth further listening, Megan Bonnell is online at meganbonnell.ca and on Twitter @themeganbonnell. Their front room show at London Music Club on January 30 is an all-ages show and features labelmates Ivory Hours; doors open at 8:30 p.m.

And for more of the latest music news, album releases and concert previews, consider following this column on Twitter @fsu_bobbyisms.

Don't forget to check fsu.ca for upcoming events and concerts here on campus, I'm out of words.