Sometime between my first interview with Lerche a year ago and this-very-moment-as-I-type he became the international heartthrob for thinking girls. Thats not to say that when I recently saw him perform at Chicagos world-famous ...more
PrefixMag
Technically, I'm supposed to be living in Guam right now. In March of 2003, Sondre Lerche was playing the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco, so I cruised over to a friend's house to have a few beers before the show. As it gets later and later, my buddy ...more
Uncut
You realise 21-year-old singer-songwriter Lerche is a bit different when he opens his second album with a French horn instrumental. It's an act of extreme confidence but hardly misplaced, for the dozen songs that follow boast tunes that ...more
Pitchfork
If the listener isn't eventually caught in swoons, at the least he will respect the degree of Lerche's refined artifice. ...more
Pitch Fork Media
There was no front: For the first half-minute of "Don't Be Shallow", Lerche was missing notes, singing out of key, just a complete mess. The crowd-- late twenty-somethings mostly there to see headliner Nada Surf play that one song they do-- was at ...more
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Tiny Mix Tapes
Two Way Monologue is an evident progression forward, but not forward enough. It is extremely similar to Faces Down and ultimately leads to disappointment. ...more
Splendid
The first thing that really jumps out at you about Two Way Monologue is that it lacks its predecessor's exuberant, puddle-jumping panache. But when you stop and look at things closely, you realize that the progressions Lerche has made on the songwriting ...more
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