★★★★★
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Certainly that would appear to be what charmingly talented Norwegian born songwriter Sondre Lerche believes. This eponymous album, his sixth, follows 2009's Heartbeat Radio and is characteristically compact, catchy, sweet and simple. No song here even risks outstaying its welcome. Recorded live to tape in his now native Brooklyn and mixed in a relatively short period, there's a spontaneous and direct air about the classic Sondre pop fizz of Private Caller...
- www.musicomh.com
2011-08-29
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare Editing a Moment in Time Sondre Lerche's an interesting creature. The 28-year-old Norwegian's been putting out records for about 10 years, none of them very much alike. Some would argue his slightly off-key vocals will forever prevent him from being a really big deal, but with the right sonic textures enveloping his unique voice, it really hits the spot...
- www.mxdwn.com
2011-08-15
★★★★★
Sondre Lerche's latest new self-titled release is a musical kaleidoscope filled with a plethora of stops, starts, and turns. Filtered through his trademark classical pop sensibilities, Lerche's album will ring a few bells of familiarity to listeners...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2011-08-01
★★★★★
"To divert my mind/I try to make another love song rhyme," Sondre Lerche sings on his sixth album. That this couplet (in "Coliseum Town") technically fails to rhyme itself is just one of many wry touches on Sondre Lerche. The Norwegian-born singer/songwriter mixes his usual verbose confessionals with sparser production than on past efforts, sifting in raw, chilly blues ("Tied Up to the Tide") and touches of country ("Go Right Ahead")...
- www.rollingstone.com
2011-07-04
★★★★★
Sondre Lerche has come a long way. His first album, the hypnotically sweet and strangely sinister Faces Down, dropped a decade ago, when Lerche was just 18. Now, at 28, releasing his self-titled sixth album, he's managed to retain most of what made him so appealing ten years ago while attempting to apply his newfound maturity to his sound...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2011-06-13
★★★★★
The most notable constant in Sondre Lerche's career so far has been change. The restless Norwegian has a wide range of musical curiosities, and in 10 years and seven albums he's covered quite a bit of ground, from the subdued, Nick Drake-inspired folk of Faces Down to the Chet Baker jazz of The Duper Sessions to the harder rock of Phantom Punch...
- pitchfork.com
2011-06-13
★★★★★
Sondre Lerche is a singer-songwriter at heart, turning his first-person poetry into little nuggets of personal pop that are appropriate for just voice and acoustic guitar. But the 28-year-old Norwegian has kept things interesting by consistently inviting company into the studio, going as far as giving his assistants band names on a couple of releases. He also likes to play dress-up, dolling up his songs in jazz, folk, rock, and other styles over the course of six proper studio albums...
- www.avclub.com
2011-06-13
★★★★★
At only 28, Sondre Lerche finds himself at a premature career crossroads: what more does he have to say? Think about it: he busted out of the gates as a fully formed teenaged songwriting talent on 2002's Faces Down. Since then, he's done a stylistic zigzag on the Chet Baker-aping Duper Sessions, soundtracked a film (however slight) with Dan in Real Life and released another three albums of damn enjoyable pop. That's a full, enviable career right there...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2011-06-13
★★★★★
Find It At: Amazon | Insound The early appeal of Sondre Lerche was that his clean sound and unabashed pop leanings felt like an antidote to the scraggly masses. A decade later, though he's grown in a variety of ways, Lerche sounds much the same. Besides his forays into jazz (Duper Sessions) and harder pop (Phantom Punch), neither of which sounded radically different from his other records, Lerche has been building a solid, if unspectacular career making airtight pop music...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2011-06-13
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