Following two successful EPs and great live performances, Sondre Lerche's debut has already sold to GOLD in his native Norway. With a foundation in rich and harmonic pop music, the 19-year-old presents 11 strong mature songs both anchored in and challenging classic songwriter traditions.

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Sophomore release from the Norwegian singer-songwriter. Now 21, his songwriting, orchestration, and melodies have matured since his disarming debut, Faces Down. The songs are truly and instantly likable...pop at its sweetest. Reminiscent of Rufus Wainwright. But better.

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Sondre Lerche, an award-winning singer-songwriter, newly minted Hollywood go-to man, and frequent sighting on critics' year-end "best albums" lists, is back with his fifth studio album, Heartbeat Radio. The songs mix acoustic guitars and grand gestures of orchestral pop with elements of anything from '50s Jazz via '60s and '70s Brazilian psych-folk to state-of-the-art '80s pop masters such as Prefab Sprout, Scritti Politti and Fleetwood Mac. While it maintains the studio polish of his groundbreaking    [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Sondre Lerche, an award-winning singer-songwriter, newly minted Hollywood go-to man, and frequent sighting on critics' year-end "best albums" lists, is back with his fifth studio album, Heartbeat Radio. The songs mix acoustic guitars and grand gestures of orchestral pop with elements of anything from '50s Jazz via '60s and '70s Brazilian psych-folk to state-of-the-art '80s pop masters such as Prefab Sprout, Scritti Politti and Fleetwood Mac. While it maintains the studio polish of his g   [ read more ]

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Sondre Lerche threw his fans for a loop with his last record, the jazzy, low-key Duper Sessions. While it was suitably classy and sophisticated, those who had come to love his snappy and intelligent pop songs were left in the lurch. Phantom Punch marks a return to form, but with some interesting alterations. The record's not as arranged as Two Way Monologue, with less instrumentation on hand and no traces of the soft rock (strings, lush vocal harmonies) that softened that album's edges    [ read more ]

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A charming detour into jazz-inflected pop, Duper Sessions is a fresh, back-to-basics collection of songs that showcases a more intimate side of this gifted singer-songwriter. Inspired by Chet Baker, Caetano Veloso and even David Lynch, Duper Sessions transports the listener into a different time and place, filled with melody and romanticism. Featuring 10 classic-sounding originals plus covers of songs by Elvis Costello, Cole Porter and Prefab Sprout's Paddy McAloon, Duper Sessions is So   [ read more ]

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Sondre Lerche's Don't Be Shallow EP contains four studio recorded songs from the Norwegian singer/songwriter as well as four live tracks recorded in a solo acoustic setting. The four studio songs are as good as the songs on Faces Down, Lerche's stunning debut. In fact, two of the songs were originally slated to appear on the record but were left off at the last minute. "Don't Be Shallow" would have been one of the highlights of the album, a low-key ballad with a steadily building arrang   [ read more ]

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While in the beginning stages of making his film {#Dan in Real Life}, director Peter Hedges went looking for someone to provide music the way Cat Stevens did for {#Harold and Maude} or Simon & Garfunkel for {#The Graduate}, someone to filter the meaning and feel of the movie through his songs. It's hard to argue with his choice; ever since his first record, 2002's Faces Down, Sondre Lerche has proven himself to be a fine chronicler of romantic confusion and winsome melancholy. Lerche was p   [ read more ]

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Though he was born in the 1980s, Norwegian singer/songwriter Sondre Lerche seems to want nothing to do with the electronica and pop-punk sounds that fascinate most of his contemporaries; his songs -- with their rich and folksy chord progressions, cheesy synth tones, quietly recorded drums, and swooning strings -- sound for all the world like products of the 1960s. Which is by no means a bad thing, especially when he's channeling the Beatles ("You Know So Well") or revisiting {\Tin Pan A   [ read more ]

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Sondre Lerche's first album, Faces Down, was bursting with promise. Two Way Monologue fulfills that promise and then some. Right from the beginning of the first song, "Love You" (a brief instrumental that hints at things to come with a sunbursting string arrangement and beautiful chords stacked together like bunches of flowers), it is clear that Lerche has lost some of the tentativeness that made his debut flawed, and has blossomed into a pop craftsman of the highest regard. The songs on {   [ read more ]

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