The Head and the Heart: The Head and the Heart – review

(Heavenly)Seattle's answer to Mumford & Sons call themselves "shamelessly happy", but their debut album is a reminder that sounding it isn't always a good thing. This is indie-folk at its most exuberant and though choruses swell and harmonies bloom it still sounds tediously predictable. Their tambourine-slapping earnestness grates, as does the vague nostalgia that washes over everything like a Photoshop sepia-effect. By the time singer Jonathan Russell waxes wistful for "an age-old trade" and "r...

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