Madelaine Pries | Contributor
Featured image: The Mowgli’s released their anticipated third album, Where’d Your Weekend Go? to generally positive reviews. | Courtesy of SoundFiction
Fall is here, but The Mowgli’s are riding into the new season on a wave of sunny summer beats with a fall tour to promote the release of their third studio album, Where’d Your Weekend Go?.
Released on September 30 from Photo Finish Records, Where’d Your Weekend Go? follows the band’s musical success since their 2013 debut album, Waiting for the Dawn. Their debut placed the band at number four on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and featured their hit song “San Francisco.”
Two days following the start of their tour on September 20, Excalibur got in touch with one of the band’s singers, Katie Jayne Earl, to chat about the upcoming album.
A collection of indie pop-rock treats, Where’d Your Weekend Go? adheres to the Los Angeles band’s iconic sunny and energetic flavour, but explores new universal and interpersonal themes such as loneliness and frustration, says Earl.
These themes can be heard in singles released this summer off of the band’s new album, such as “Spacin Out” and “Freakin’ Me Out,” two of Earl’s favourite songs to play live.
“Monster” is another song off of Where’d Your Weekend Go? that deals with important themes. “‘Monster’ is a song about the fear of becoming the worst version of yourself,” explains Earl. “The song is a reminder that the qualities we see in other people are sometimes a reflection of what we see in ourselves and it’s our personal responsibility to keep our own monsters at bay.”
The band’s take on on the cliché idea of keeping one’s demons at bay is refreshing. It offers an honest look into something that many people struggle with daily, but in an upbeat and positive way.
Earl also says that the band’s new work allowed them to collaborate with different people in the music industry, such as producer Rob Elmore on the single “Bad Thing,” released September 9. Earl says that the reason the song sounds so different from their past work is because of the amount of production that went into it, which she explains came from collaborating with Elmore.
The Mowgli’s played at The Garrison in Toronto on October 2, where fans coasted into fall on a wave of bright and fresh new tunes while enjoying throwbacks to some favourites off the band’s past albums.
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