Sam Roberts and Dave Nugent

Dave Nugent: "He did, but in a good way," Roberts tells HuffPost Canada Music, sitting in a room at Toronto's Corus Entertainment, where he ll later be doing interviews with new rock station The Edge and classic rock station Q107, an indicator of how "Lo-Fantasy" works in both music worlds, according to Huffington Post. The band guitarist Dave Nugent, bassist James Hall, keyboardist Eric Fares and drummer Josh Trager, officially billed as Sam Roberts Band have been told something's not good enough before, most notably after they went to Australia to make 2006's "Chemical City" and had to do some additional recording and tweaking once back in Montreal. But that was more a label directive and personal intuition than a producer saying on the spot, "No, you can do better." Sam Roberts has been told no before, but when British producer Youth, an original member of Killing Joke and producer of such a varied mix of clients as The Verve, Missy Higgins, Vanessa Mae and Crowded House, came out to Montreal to record the band's fifth studio album, Lo-Fantasy, in a mere 12 days, he put them through the ringer. "The beginning of a session is supposed to be jarring. If somebody comes in to work on your record and they just pat you on the back and say, 'You know what, just keep doing what you're doing," then they might as well twist knobs and be an engineer. "And that's always the debate," he adds. "We've always had a moment in our record where we've flushed it out enough that we say, 'Okay, I think we should produce this ourselves. Why are we going to go and get someone else to muddle our vision for these songs?' And then you bring somebody else in like Brian Deck who produced 2011's "Collider" or Youth and you realize why you need it." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.