Sondre Lerche

Lerche is a twenty year-old songwriting prodigy from Norway whose debut album mixes a breezy take on AM radio pop with a wistful, pastoral vision. The soft drums and folk-y rhythms place this album somewhere between Belle & Sebastian and Rufus Wainwright, but Lerche's meticulous, addictive style is clearly his own.

When did Scandinavia get so damn warm and cuddly? On his debut LP, nineteen-year-old
Norwegian Sondre Lerche combines a rich Donovan-ian voice with mellow orchestral
charm. There is a dark undertone that balances the record: Lerche's voice breathes a
reassuring warmth into the otherwise morbid "Dead Passengers" and musters up
melancholic romance in the slightly jaded, violin-aided "You Know So Well." Ler... More >