Kevin Bronson on December 15th, 2014

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The Mowgli’s are like those smiling kids who come to your front door every so often with an armload of salvation, if only you’d become a True Believer. And if you are, you’ll smile at learning the L.A.-based missionaries of positivity announced this week that their sophomore album “Kids in Love” will be out in April. The septet – Colin Louis Dieden, Katie Jayne Earl, Matthew Di Panni, Josh Hogan, Dave Appelbaum, Spencer Trent and Andy Warren – emerged in early 2012 with the chipper single “San Francisco,” riding the slipstream of similarly upbeat indie-pop bands such as Grouplove and Family of the Year. The album they self-released that year was picked up, spit-polished and released as “Waiting for the Dawn” in June 2013 by Island Def Jam. The treacly new single “Through the Dark” (out today) continues in the same vein as “Waiting;” the Mowgli’s never met a gang chorus they didn’t like. They are most effective when you’re a member of the gang too.

||| Stream: “Through the Dark”

||| Live: The Mowgli’s perform May 8 at the Regent Theater.

||| Previously: “San Francisco”