Sondre Lerche : Faces Down

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Sell date: 9/2002
Label: Emm/Caroline
Mfg's Catalog#: 13210
CDC Part#: 728605
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Full title is: Faces Down

  Brilliant Strings - Strings
  Frode Unneland - Percussion, Drums
  Helen Eriksen - Vocals
  Leslie Ahern - Vocals
  Lillian Samdal - Vocals
  Marcus Holdaway - Strings
  Martin Holmes - Tambur
  Morten Skage - Bass
  Ole Ludvig Kruger - Drums

Though he was born in the 1980s, Norwegian singer/songwriter Sondre Lerche seems to want nothing to do with the electronica and pop - punk sounds that fascinate most of his contemporaries; his songs -- with their rich and folky chord progressions, cheesy synth tones, quietly recorded drums, and swooning strings -- sound for all the world like products of the 1960s. Which is by no means a bad thing, especially when he's channeling the Beatles ( 'You Know So Well' ) or revisiting Tin Pan Alley ( 'Modern Nature,' in duet with the winning Lillian Samdal ) or getting all sentimental and bossa nova ( 'Virtue and Wine' ). The song titles, you will have noticed, do not necessarily bode well for the lyrics; Lerche is not a native English speaker, and his sense of idiom isn't as developed as it probably should be if he's going to write songs in that language (sample couplet: 'Once I believed we could approach this/Now I have faith placed in the things you call fate'). But the lyrics are not always embarrassing, and the melodies and arrangements are consistently attractive and involving enough to make up for it when they are. ~ Rick Anderson, All Music Guide

 
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Dead Passengers - 4:23 Play the Windows Media clip
You Know So Well - 4:15 Play the Windows Media clip
Sleep on Needles - 4:45 Play the Windows Media clip
Suffused With Love - 2:51 Play the Windows Media clip
Side Two - 4:37 Play the Windows Media clip
Modern Nature - 3:36 Play the Windows Media clip
Virtue & Wine - 5:21 Play the Windows Media clip
On & Off Again - 5:06 Play the Windows Media clip
No One's Gonna Come - 4:39 Play the Windows Media clip
All Luck Ran Out - 4:25 Play the Windows Media clip
Things You Call Fate - 9:21 Play the Windows Media clip
Rosebud [*] - 4:07 Play the Windows Media clip
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