Let’s Be Still by The Head and the Heart

Let's Be Still, the Head and the Heart's second album, came out on Sub Pop on October 15, 2013, two years after their self-titled debut, and it keeps the indie folk campfire burning. The band Josiah Johnson and Jonathan Russell started in 2009 still leans on stacked voices and communal strumming, the kind of songs that sound like they were written to be sung by a whole room at once.

"Shake", track six, went out as the single in late July, the most restless thing on the record, and the band gave "Another Story" a spin on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon that August before heading out on the road for the fall. The gentle title track is the one listeners have kept close, still turning up on countdowns years later.

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