"I don't ever want to go back to the old days," sings Dr. Dog's Scott McMicken on "My Old Ways", a song off 2007's We All Belong. They're kind of ironic lyrics coming from a band that keeps scraping the bottom of a barrel of older influences—the Beach Boys, the Band, the Faces, the Dead, CSNY for good measure, Captain Beefheart in interviews. And yet, it's a fitting personal statement considering Carl Wilson's recent evaluation of another critically panned, fan-beloved outfit: Mumford & Sons. Quoting Chuck Eddy, Wilson wrote, "The Mumfords barely skim the surface. They don't seem remotely musically curious." The same can be said of Dr. Dog, which has rarely made music with any real sense of urgency or ambition, much less curiosity about their predecessors. (In related news, Dr. Dog is currently touring with the Lumineers.)