“King and Lionheart” by Of Monsters And Men

"King and Lionheart" sits second on My Head Is an Animal, the 2011 debut album from Icelandic alternative folk band Of Monsters and Men, and it held that slot on both the original Icelandic issue and the international one. The band produced it themselves with Aron Arnarsson and Jacquire King, and the credits hand the words to co-lead singer Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir and Ragnar Þórhallsson.

It's a wide-eyed, storybook charmer, and it won over the home crowd first, going all the way to No. 1 on Iceland's Tónlist singles chart in 2012. In March 2013, as the follow-up to "Mountain Sound", it went out as a radio-only single in America and Britain, and alternative programmers bit hard enough to carry it to No. 17 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart.

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