Sondre Lerche always looks like he's up to something. He has a mischievous twinkle in his eye that says he has several aces up his sleeve, and he's just waiting for the right time to use them. It seems he's played a few of those cards in the studio for his new self-titled album.
In the past, Sondre has proven that he sure can turn a pop hook - and although I'm not yet mindlessly humming any of his new tunes, his melodies and time signature changes are always more explorative and interesting than a lot of others' floating around. His sweet tooth for weirdly-worded-but-clearly-earnest lyrics and genre mashing makes him one of the most underrated cogs in the music machine.
His boyish, Chet Bakery voice sounds much more comfortable inside a slow strummer, but the sing-a-longness of his upbeat work is so distracting that you hardly notice. FYI, if you don't absolutely love his score for the film
Dan In Real Life, there's something wrong with you.
