The band is named for a figment of Rudyard Kipling’s imagination, so it’s no surprise that California rock outfit The Mowgli’s has tapped American author, painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell for inspo on a single from the group’s latest EP, American Feelings.
The sound on the four-track release is a little different from past material by The Mowgli’s, and songwriter Colin Dieden recently explained the melancholic vibes to Billboard.
“I thought this kid [in Rockwell’s painting “I Am a Child”] was trying to paint himself a new life,” Dieden said. “He was stuck in this thing, and I imagined he was trying to create a new world for himself. So I put ‘Norman Rockwell’ in this list of titles in my phone and started to think, how am I gonna write a song called ‘Norman Rockwell’?”
Well, he did, and we like it. We like the fact that Kiley Lotz’s Petal project is opening the show even more.
The Mowgli’s w/Petal/Arms Akimbo. Sun., July 21. 6 p.m. $20-$23. Crowbar, Ybor City. aestheticized.com.
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This article appears in Jul 11-18, 2019.