The Mowgli’s and Arms Akimbo
Sounding like the illegitimate children of some 1970s Laurel Canyon orgy thrown by Crosby, Stills, Nash, Ronstadt, and Melanie, L.A. alt-rockers the Mowgli’s kicked off their recorded output in 2012 with a series of sunny love songs. These were collected on their self-released Sound the Drum album, earning them lots of comparisons to left coast soft rockers such the Byrds, even though they clearly wanted to keep turning up the amps and fly more like the Airplane. That’s exactly what they’ve done over their next few albums, though their eternal homage to the patron saints of folk keeps surfacing on singles such as their get-out-the vote anthem “Times Are Still Changing.” A recent single for “Real Good Life” is said to preview an upcoming album that they’re essentially writing on the road, trying out new tunes and working out arrangements on stages such as the Casbah, where they’re due on November 9.