Super Duper Sessions!
Sondre Lerche - Duper Sessions
I always felt there was something missing with Sondre Lerche. His voice was a bit too swoony and his guitar a bit too jazzy for his pop orchestrations. It always seemed he was a tad bit out of his element.
But that has all changed.
Sondre Lerche has just released the album he was born to make!
Duper Sessions finds the Norwegian lad transporting the listener to the town of Croonerville! Teaming up with “The Faces Down Quartet,” he unveils 13 songs, 10 of which are stunning originals that “Mr. S.” would have wet himself to sing!
The originals come off sounding so breezy and effortlessly smooth, you get the feeling Lerche probably wrote them in a couple of days.
This is easy listening music for sure, to be placed on the shelf right next to Costello and Bacharach’s “Painted From Memory.”
...but don’t be dis-swayed by that.
This is a grand achievement and there really aren’t many who could pull off releasing an entire album of songs like this, let alone write them! Elvis Costello definitely, The Divine Comedy probably, maybe Aztec Camera, perhaps Joe Jackson… but that’s about it.
Cheers to Sondre for releasing the album that I’ve been waiting for.
If there is any justice in the world, it will be the soundtrack for the next Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan-influenced chick flick.
Move over Harry Connick Jr., there’s a new crooner in town.
I always felt there was something missing with Sondre Lerche. His voice was a bit too swoony and his guitar a bit too jazzy for his pop orchestrations. It always seemed he was a tad bit out of his element.
But that has all changed.
Sondre Lerche has just released the album he was born to make!
Duper Sessions finds the Norwegian lad transporting the listener to the town of Croonerville! Teaming up with “The Faces Down Quartet,” he unveils 13 songs, 10 of which are stunning originals that “Mr. S.” would have wet himself to sing!
The originals come off sounding so breezy and effortlessly smooth, you get the feeling Lerche probably wrote them in a couple of days.
This is easy listening music for sure, to be placed on the shelf right next to Costello and Bacharach’s “Painted From Memory.”
...but don’t be dis-swayed by that.
This is a grand achievement and there really aren’t many who could pull off releasing an entire album of songs like this, let alone write them! Elvis Costello definitely, The Divine Comedy probably, maybe Aztec Camera, perhaps Joe Jackson… but that’s about it.
Cheers to Sondre for releasing the album that I’ve been waiting for.
If there is any justice in the world, it will be the soundtrack for the next Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan-influenced chick flick.
Move over Harry Connick Jr., there’s a new crooner in town.
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