RELATED: THE HEAD & THE HEART INTERVIEW<\/a><\/p>\nDrummer Tyler Williams was the next to take the mic, sharing that \u201cDown In The Valley\u201d was the first song he heard from the band, when Russell, with whom he grew up in Richmond, sent him a demo from Seattle. Williams\u2019 girlfriend, now his wife, told him: \u201cYou gotta move out there.\u201d He did, and they started the band. \u201cThose roads led us to Matthew Gervais,\u201d he said, handing off the narrative to the band\u2019s outgoing co-frontman.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an amazing building,\u201d Gervais said. \u201cI feel like New York City is spoiling us.\u201d Introducing one of the group\u2019s best-known selections, \u201cRivers And Roads,\u201d he said: \u201cThis next song made its debut in a parking garage in Tacoma, Washington,\u201d noting that it was eventually played in arenas, with The Lumineers and at Madison Square Garden with fellow Seattleite Brandi Carlile<\/p>\n
The mid-album track \u201cHoney Come Home\u201d was a nice palate cleanser before the centerpiece of the set, H&H\u2019s breakthrough song, \u201cLost In My Mind.\u201d The Brudi Brothers, who opened the show with a brilliant set, ran out to join on vocals and arm hugs. The anthemic tune is somewhat restrained on the album, but with celebration on the docket, the band, the Brudis and the crowd turned it into a raucous singalong. Singer\/violinist Charity Rose Thielen noted that in the early days of the band, \u201copen mics and parking garages, even it didn\u2019t look like a stage, we always brough people out on that song.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hensley, the piano player, was up next, introducing \u201cWinter Song\u201d as a composition that \u201cgot its start 22 years ago in my bedroom in LA.\u201d Some of the band sat on the stage floor for a more intimate delivery, imbuing lines like \u201cSummer gone, now winter\u2019s on its way, I will miss the days we had\u201d with extra sentiment.<\/p>\n
Drummer Williams told the story of how the band first crossed paths with Sub Pop, the legendary Seattle label behind Nirvana, Soundgarden and later Fleet Foxes and Band Of Horses, a tale involving a lost phone that was found by a label staffer.<\/p>\n
\u201cSounds Like Hallelujah\u201d and \u201cHeaven Go Easy On Me\u201d wrapped up the album portion of the show, with Gervais lauding the record before the finale. \u201cIt\u2019s one of those records, maybe you were doing the dishes, maybe you were having a backyard party, maybe you were listening in your car by yourself crying, but it was a record that stayed with you and made you feel like you weren\u2019t alone.\u201d<\/p>\n
After a very short break, it was time for 10 more songs from various corners of the group\u2019s catalog. Thielen and Gervais started the set as a duo, launching into \u201cGrace,\u201d a previously unreleased song included on the recently released deluxe edition of the self-titled album.<\/p>\n
The rest of the band reemerged and, celebrating another milestone \u2014 the one-year-and-a-day anniversary of the newest studio record, \u201cAperture\u201d \u2014 performed the simple, strong and slow album track \u201cFinally Free\u201d and the title song. An early-catalog favorite, \u201cAll We Ever Knew,\u201d complete with percussive piano, melodic violin and trademark \u201cla la las,\u201d inspired a crowd clap-along, before two more memorable \u201cAperture\u201d tracks: \u201cFire Escape\u201d and \u201cArrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMissed Connection,\u201d another tune featuring \u201cla la las,\u201d is a bit of a departure from The Head & The Heart\u2019s trademark sound, owing more to The Killers and Interpol than any jangly folk act, and was well placed as the second-last song of the second set, setting the table for \u201cShake,\u201d the foot-stomping, soul-baring lead single from album number two, 2013\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s Be Still.\u201d<\/p>\n
Following the jubilant set closer, Gervais, Thielen and Russell returned without the rest of the group to sing \u201cGlory of Music,\u201d from 2019\u2019s \u201cLiving Mirage\u201d album. \u201cWe are, we are, the power of music,\u201d the trio sang, words zealous enough to make the angsty bands that built the Seattle alt-rock scene that preceded them cringe, but in The Head & The Heart\u2019s hands, they sounded just right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u201cStorytellers\u201d-style career retrospective tour is an ambitious move for a band that has been together for fewer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-236262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}