Vancouver-based indie-folksters The Fugitives headed to Toronto to work with producer John Critchley (Elliot Brood, Amelia Curran) on the carefully sculpted and literate song cycle Everything Will Happen. In the hands of songwriters Adrian Glynn and Brendan McLeod, the album is the group's most focused to date. Toronto bluegrass banjo man Chris Quinn joins The Fugitives on two tracks, including the opener, “Love Affairs,” where everything starts slowly but sure enough reaches the 100mph mark; then love wanes with equal speed. “Old Mistakes" follows, with more romantic trouble; “Wilderness Years” finds what middle-aged love entails. “Bigger Than Luck” attempts to embrace the ups and downs of life without sounding like a greeting card, and it’s successful. (“The future is the only place where people repent.”) The sweet, fiddle-sawing “Everything That’s Going to Happen” accepts that fate plays a big part in life, but that doesn’t mean we can’t influence it a bit. A rotating cast of musicians brings a variety of styles to the songs, making this The Fugitives’ most accomplished album to date.