The Heart

By Elle Carroll The Head and the Heart can break up whenever it pleases — the band is already immortalized by way of “Rivers and Roads,” a bleeding-heart cut from its 2011 debut album (with a hell of a crescendo) that was featured on multiple TV shows swinging for the emotional-impact fences (including, but not limited to, New Girl, How I Met Your Mother and the series finale of Chuck). Nowadays the Seattle folk band is riding the release of its fourth album, Living Mirage, a slickly produced record that doesn’t pass off as folk. The trademark harmonies are still there, but the group has gone undeniably pop — so much so that Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind” is an audible touchstone on “Saving Grace.”