Song #15 // The Head and The Heart “Lost in My Mind” [The Head and the Heart]
Like most of us, I first heard The Head and The Heart this year despite the Seattle-based band appearing on Sub-Pop a year prior. Whether or not this release was fated to meet my ears just as the May rains opened up green buds and unsheathed winter windows is up for debate. It’s impact is not; it’s the perfect spring song, filled with hushed optimism and crushed grass bombast.
Strange, though, how it encapsulates my/our evolving understanding of Pacific-Northwest music, especially as the early 90s hinted at a fog-laden Shangri-La fueled by angst and caffeine. Now, as I sit here in that very Mecca of grunge and punk on a mostly overcast day, the spitting skies provide counterintuitive evidence that even rolling stones gather moss here, and the soundtrack to such controlled dreariness is often some of the most homespun pop music this side of the Mississippi.
Funny, that: the way the distant mountains were so clear, vivid, and majestic this past weekend while this morning the not-quite-dank gloom partitions the visible world at the end of the street. An elastic worldview, played like an accordion in the winter early sunsets.
