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 folky 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 Alley ("Modern Nature," in duet with the winning Lillian Samdal) or getting all sentimental and ossa nova ("Virtue and Wine"). The song titles, you will have noticed, do not necessarily bode well for the lyrics; Lerche is not a native English speaker, and his sense of idiom isn't as developed as it probably should be if he's going to write songs in that language (sample couplet: "Once I believed we could approach this/Now I have faith placed in the things you call fate"). But the lyrics are not always embarrassing, and the melodies and arrangements are consistently attractive and involving enough to make up for it when they are.
Wow! I guess my two toddlers have had me living in a cave for a few years. I can't believe Sondre has been off the map for me. Freaking outstanding music and a unique style. This one, "Sleep on Needles" is so much like classic T.Rex. What a great song.
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Photographer: Per Heimlywell, it was back to fillmore, weekend business as usual. sitting upstairs during the opening bands, hearing a man who dreams of being tom waits, sipping and gritting my teeth through red bull and vodka...the week's sleep was so inconsistent, what with 65 reports on how 14 year olds are handling creative short stories, coping with realities of apartheid after reading Kaf...
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Photographer: Per Heimlywell, it was back to fillmore, weekend business as usual. sitting upstairs during the opening bands, hearing a man who dreams of being tom waits, sipping and gritting my teeth through red bull and vodka...the week's sleep was so inconsistent, what with 65 reports on how 14 year olds are handling creative short stories, coping with realities of apartheid after reading Kaf...
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I wish I knew more about him. Released in 2001.
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Wow! I guess my two toddlers have had me living in a cave for a few years. I can't believe Sondre has been off the map for me. Freaking outstanding music and a unique style. This one, "Sleep on Needles" is so much like classic T.Rex. What a great song.
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| Title | Lyrics | Buy |
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| 1 Dead Passengers |
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| 2 You Know So Well |
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| 3 Sleep on Needles |
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| 4 Suffused With Love |
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| 5 Side Two |
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| 6 Modern Nature |
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| 7 Virtue and Wine |
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| 8 On and Off Again |
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| 9 No One's Gonna Come |
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| 10 All Luck Ran Out |
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| 11 Things You Call Fate |
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| 12 Rosebud [*] |
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