Sondre Lerche

Disclaimer: This is not a love letter to Sondre Lerche nor to his music. I do not like his music or him as a person or anything. At all. Hahahahahhaah. Obviously not. No.

So, I think I've mentioned Sondre Lerche a few times on this blog already and as you can probably see, I quite like his music. And when I say quite like, I mean fricking love. I got to say I discovered him in a unique manner. There's no other artist that I've checked out, because comedians made a sketch about him. So thank you Ylvis brother for this one. You can watch the sketch here and well, after I first watched it, I was obviously intrigued who this Sondre guy was as I couldn't really enjoy the sketch when I didn't get the context. Also he seemed super cute in the sketch so I decided to check him out. And after one listen I already really loved his music.

He is a norwegian singer-songwriter who has released 7 (!!!) studio albums in various genres. He drifts on the borders of indie pop, lounge rock, folk rock, pop and alternative. His songs have complex rhythm combinations and clever lyrics. Lyrics might be my favourite part of his songs as he uses a lot of metaphors and figures of speech in such unexpected ways.

I've mostly listened to his freshest album "Please" so I'll talk of this the most. "Please" came out last year and "Bad Law", one of the singles from the album, was the first ever Sondre song I heard. I've loved the song from the first listen and there was a period where I only had this on replay (as always with great songs I have this period where I just don't stop listening to it). It has such a catchy melody, the rhythm is so nice and the lyrics are so clever and well-timed and wow. I also really love it's music video, I think the changes in camera angles convey the song so well. Other favourites from "Please" are "Lucifer" (great use of metaphors and such a nice melody), "Sentimentalist" (especially live/acoustic versions of this song), "Legends" (I really love how they've taped the music video in one take as well, it fits with the song sooo well in my opinion) and "Crickets" (this song has one of the catchiest and just nicest melodies I've ever heard).

Now some other songs of Sondre I love have got to be "Private Caller" from his self-titled album that came out in 2011. The song is again so catchy and also has such clever lyrics. Also "Go Right Ahead" from the same album is such a nice and upbeat tune with such clever lyrics (again, I just can't get over what a clever lyricist he is, it's simply amazing). Also "Two Way Monologue" from an album with the same name released in 2004. Great great music. 

All in all I'd really recommend Sondre Lerche to everybody, but especially people that love pop and rock fusion with catchy beats and profound lyrics. 

Til next time,

Ingrid