![]() ![]() His restless artistic spirit has never dimmed and even the perils of the global pandemic barely slowed him down. His talents stretched to soundtrack work (as on his score for 2007's Dan in Real Life and the 2014 thriller The Sleepwalker) to serving as a mentor on Norway's edition of the Voice to a string of records - Please (2014), Pleasure (2017), and Patience (2020) - which took on matters of the heart with art-pop, exuberant synthesizer pop, and subtler ambient influences, respectively. He swung from straight forward guitar pop on 2004's Two Way Monologue to gentle jazz-pop (2006's Duper Sessions) and short, spiky new Wave-influenced rock for the next year's Phantom Punch all the while his ear for melody and way with smart, heartfelt lyrics remained a constant. He arrived in 2001 with an acclaimed full-length debut, Faces Down, that already demonstrated an affection for adventurous chords and the experimental bent that would regularly surface afterward. ![]() ![]() alternative, and the Brazilian music he absorbed while learning guitar. Pairing an intimate and warm voice with a talent for writing appealing pop tunes that are alternately sunny and melancholic, Sondre Lerche's work shows the influences of '60s American pop, '80s U.K. ![]()
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