Sondre Lerche - Duper Sessions '2012

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Everyone's Rooting for You
02. Minor Detail
03. Across the Land
04. The Curse of Being in Love
05. Dead End Mystery
06. Night and Day
07. Once in a While
08. Human Hands
09. (You Knocked Me) Off My Feet
10. (I Wanna) Call It Love
11. Nightingales
12. I'm Not from Here
13. You Sure Look Swell
14. Lulu-vise
15. The More I See You (2005 Remaster-bonus track)

Sondre Lerche's third album, 2006's Duper Sessions, is a surprise. Maybe even a
shock. Certainly anyone who was expecting him to follow up Two Way Monologue
with another great pop record may be disappointed. At first. Once you reconcile
yourself to the idea that Lerche has made a jazz-pop record, the songcraft,
laid-back approach and Lerche's sweet vocals might just win you over. If the
idea of jazz scares you with visions of endless bass solos, rest assured there
is minimal soloing as the Faces Down Quartet (Eric Halvorsen on piano, Morten
Skage on upright bass, Ole Ludvig Kruger on drums, and Kato Ã…dland on
guitars) provide very subtle and relaxed backing throughout, ensuring that
Lerche's intimate vocals and songs are the real stars of the show. While Lerche
does an acceptable job on the straight-ahead jazz tunes like "Everyone's Rooting
for You," "I'm Not from Here," and " (You Knocked Me) Off My Feet," swinging and
crooning with style and soul, the most interesting songs are those that take his
usual smart and melodic indie pop songs and give them the acoustic jazz
treatment. "Minor Detail" sounds like it could have fit on his previous albums
with guitars, "The Curse of Being in Love" is a rollicking pop tune with a
country & western undertone, " (I Wanna) Call It Love" gives Lerche a chance to
show off the near-perfect arranging skills he honed on Two Way Monologue, and
"You Look Swell" is a soulful and tender love song that borrows from classic doo
wop song structure. Lerche also gives a couple of covers the jazz treatment,
showing Elvis Costello a trick or two on his slinky and swinging cover of "Human
Hands," and lightly and politely crooning Prefab Sprout's "Nightingales." There
are a couple of moments that don't hold up very well like the cover of "Night
and Day" and the cutesy "Across the Land," but for the most part Lerche has made
the switch to jazz crooner painlessly. Apart from a similar feel at times, the
two don't have all that much in common, one can imagine fans of Jamie Cullum
enjoying this record quite a bit. As should fans of Lerche's previous work, if
they keep their minds and ears open and give it a chance.

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