Relic Hearts

Relic Hearts’ name proved to be a happy accident, though a serendipitous one at that. “I misheard M quoting Tennyson in Skyfall,” recalls Jonnie. “Instead of ‘heroic hearts,’ I thought she said ‘Relic Hearts.’ The line before—‘That which we are, we are’—hit me. We grow and change, but in any moment, what we are is all we are. That’s how we feel in this band. We’re doing what we love, and we cherish that. It’s like a physical object—a relic.”