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	Sondre Lerche -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sondre Lerche (born September 5, 1982, in (additional info and facts about Bergen, Norway) Bergen, Norway) is a (A Scandinavian language that is spoken in Norway) Norwegian (A person who sings) singer with a unique (People in general) folk/ (A sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring) pop style.
		Lerche learned to play the (A stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking) guitar at age 8, wrote his first song at age 14, and was soon playing in clubs—despite the fact he was underage to be doing so.
		Lerche clearly puts effort into his poetry, but the results are often vague, and at worst they suggest a nonsensical translation of what might have been eloquent in the singer's native tongue"
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/sondre_lerche.htm (206 words)

	Norsk Musikkinformasjon: Sondre Lerche goes big
		Sondre Lerche’s second album, the critically acclaimed “Two way monologue” is set to give the Bergen singer/songwriter a larger audience as the album is to be released in 26 countries world-wide.
		Sondre Lerche’s rising status in the US can also be viewed in the press coverage on the other end of the Atlantic.
		Sondre Lerche's songs live in a world with Nick Drake's pink moons and the Flaming Lips' pink robots, where maladies have melodies and modern rock is just an ugly rumor.
	www.ballade.no /mic.nsf/doc/art2004033113545159349965 (1098 words)

	Sondre Lerche: Faces Down: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Just as Parisians seem to have an almost effortless sophistication and stylishness to their clothing and behavior, Lerche projects a deep nonchalance in his nevertheless enjoyable music-- it might be the most laidback album of lush pop I've ever heard.
		Lerche's nonchalance also tends to drag songs out longer than necessary: "On and Off Again" could stop right at the 3:30 mark, before the theremin-accented freakout, and remain just as good if not stronger, while "Things You Call Fate" needlessly cycles a repetitive jam past the nine-minute mark.
		Lerche's slightly Beck tone (sprinkled with a hefty dose of Bowie) allows me to file this record next to the similarly imitative Schneider TM, as another 2002 album I wish the actual Beck had made instead of that bland Jackson Browne woe, Sea Change.
	pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/l/lerche_sondre/faces-down.shtml (519 words)

	Sondre Lerche, "Two Way Monologue" review
		But truly, Norway’s Sondre Lerche doesn’t fit in, he delivers his emotions in the form of music, wearing his heart on his sleeve and seeming to care only about how well he can convey it in song rather than how trendy the music is, though there’s a lot of style here.
		Lerche started playing the guitar at age eight, and much like Bright Eyes’s Conor Oberst, Lerche really got into writing music around the age of fourteen and quickly began putting out heartfelt confessionals that were quickly adored.
		Lerche’s lyrics run from being poetic and thought provoking to achingly honest to bizarre (“I saw you, you saw me, you were naked, which was weird”), lyrics also comparable to those of Bright Eyes in their honesty and poetic sensibilities, yet Lerche takes a more reflective approach.
	onetimesone.com /sound/reviews/l/lerchesondre-two.php (613 words)

	The Mac Weekly
		Lerche's voice is all over the spectrum on the album: on "No One's Gonna Come," he is Bowie, while on "Sleep On Needles" he is perhaps a light-hearted Thom Yorke.
		Lerche is of the old-school persuasion that the chorus is infinitely more important than the verse— and on this album he makes you agree with him.
		Sondre Lerche will apparently be playing two shows in one night, March 1st (this guy works hard!): For the underage set, he will be opening for Nada Surf (remember them?) at 6:30 p.m.
	www.macalester.edu /weekly/022103/music1.html (1235 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Performer Details
		Lerche's distinctive voice and natural talent for writing appealing and alternately sunny and melancholic pop tunes quickly established him as a definite contender for significance throughout Europe and beyond.
		Born and raised in Bergen, Norway, Sondre Lerche was weaned on the 80's pop that emanated from his older siblings' rooms.
		Lerche performed acoustic gigs at the club where his sister worked while he was still under age, and was 'discovered' by Norwegian producer H.P. Gundersen.
	www.laphil.org /resources/performer_detail.cfm?id=2116 (383 words)

	Sondre Lerche - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sondre Lerche (born September 5, 1982, in Bergen, Norway) is a Norwegian singer, guitarist and songwriter with a unique folk/pop style.
		Lerche learned to play the guitar at age 8, wrote his first song at age 14, and was soon playing in clubs—despite the fact he was underage to be doing so.
		In July 2005, Sondre Lerche married his girlfriend, Norwegian model Mona Fastvold.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sondre_Lerche (247 words)

	Sondre Lerche - PopMatters Concert Review
		Lerche -- songs, soul, and all -- is wielding a big, fluttery feather, and we, his listeners, are being tickled pink.
		Lerche is just the opening act tonight, but this 19-year-old Norwegian has his own cult following -- replete with hipsters forsaking their ironic cool, over 50-ers recapturing their fading youth, and curious non-believers who, slowly but surely, are overtaken by his spell.
		For all his fey charm, Lerche is a monster when it comes to playing, buckling down to drill at the notes, the ease of his melodic lines unmasked by the devilish intricacies involved in executing them in real time.
	www.popmatters.com /music/concerts/l/lerche-sondre-030616.shtml (785 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Music: SXSW Live Shots
		Scrappy young Norwegian Sondre Lerche proved himself to be the ultimate in soothing comfort in the midst of this chaotic conference, a quiet lounge in which to retreat when you want to hide from Downtown's bombast.
		Lerche, outfitted in jeans and a low-key plaid cowboy shirt with snaps, started out slow, with just his acoustic guitar and his intimate, honey-smooth voice broadcasting smooth and clear to the crowd, which was thick with Scandinavians.
		Perhaps it's that in an age that favors style over substance, Lerche stands up to the phonies and coos defiantly in their faces, providing an alternative to macho posturing and reminding us that it's OK to take it easy every once in a while.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2003-03-14/music_live41.html (175 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Two Way Monologue [Import] [Enhanced] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sondre seems to be channeling an old jazz singer with his vocals and the instrumentation is amazing as always.
		Sondre Lerche is a dreamy genious and I wish I had heard of him sooner.
		Sondre Lerche wrote all of his songs, and he says they come from his heart, from his past experiences.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001DMUBS (1026 words)

	Sondre Lerche: Two Way Monologue: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lerche's kitschy youth appeal had earned their sympathy, yet now they actually liked what he was playing.
		Admittedly, these aren't Lerche's sophistications so much as they are Lerche appropriating the sophistications of his new touchstones.
		Still, Lerche attempts them and is to a great extent successful in his own right, never appearing a simple mouthpiece of his muses.
	pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/l/lerche_sondre/two-way-monologue.shtml (810 words)

	Sondre Lerche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		With the flare of a lounge singer like Burt Bacharach or Elvis Costello, and a style that seems like the Beatles fast-forwarded to the present day, Sondre Lerche is helping to shape and mold the ‘newbadour’ genre with his breezy Norwegian accent.
		At 22, Lerche seems like a baby in the scene, but when considering that he picked up a guitar at age eight, wrote his first song at 14 and signed on with Virgin Norway at 17, it becomes apparent that he is mature beyond his years in the musical world.
		But Lerche is content being on his own on the road and on stage.
	www.marqueemag.com /11_04/Sondre.html (561 words)

	Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue
		Second album time already for Bergen's Sondre Lerche - not bad for a 21-year old who writes all his own songs and seems to play most of the instruments.
		Lerche has a winning way with bittersweet songs, and knows how to orchestrate on the evidence of the extended intro.
		Throughout the album, Lerche seems troubled and mildly obsessed by situations that "are over".
	www.musicomh.com /albums2/sondre-lerche-2.htm (352 words)

	CNN.com - Sondre Lerche: Sunny sounds from Norway - Apr. 24, 2003
		Sondre Lerche performs at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas.
		Years before he was old enough to get into nightclubs, Norwegian singer-songwriter Sondre Lerche was playing acoustic gigs at the club where his older sister worked.
		Lerche: "Many of the songs on this album are school songs.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/24/mroom.sondre.lerche (925 words)

	CordMag Live Review - Sondre Lerche
		The thing that became quickly apparent about Lerche is what an apt comedian he is. He speaks with a soft Norwegian accent, and has a great command of the English language, only mixing up a tiny bit of grammar, but maintaining a deep vocabulary that I wouldn't have expected.
		I don't know; I'm from Norway." And the moment that left Lerche speechless, when one mysterious voice from somewhere in the dark room shouted, "Take off your jacket!" His face became shocked and wide-eyed, as he appeared to dig for some response to that, but he didn't come up with one.
		Lerche rolled with all the foibles of his show.
	www.cordmag.com /003june2004/livesondrelerche.html (1397 words)

	Global Hits: Sondre Lerche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sondre Lerche: If I was to say my name in Norwegian with the dialect from where I come, I would say Sondre Lerche.
		Sondre Lerche was introduced to America this year.
		Sondre Lerche: I was 16, and I remember it very concretely, very directly because all these things are very big issues at the time, I was in school, and the song is just about you know you've got all these chances of doing it, but somehow you just can't seem to get your act together.
	www.theworld.org /globalhits/2003/05/26.html (445 words)

	Norsk Musikkinformasjon: Sondre Lerche’s dialogue
		Two Way Monologue is the name of Sondre Lerche’s second album, just released in Norway.
		After extensive touring in the United States, Lerche, 21, from Bergen has become a confident and experienced live artist, as well as a skilful songwriter.
		This is Lerche’s strenght, the melodies, especially when he performs them with as little accompaniment as possible.
	www.mic.no /mic.nsf/doc/art2004022410081340477912 (373 words)

	VH1.com : Sondre Lerche
		Lerche is enjoying the last laugh on his childhood tormentors, though.
		Sondre Lerche: When I was four years old, they were the first music I heard.
		Lerche: Some of that stuff I was listening to already, but he definitely introduced me to stuff that really influenced the songs I wrote later.
	www.vh1.com /artists/interview/1469775/02052003/lerche_sondre.jhtml (1497 words)

	the-raft.com - first for music, music news, features, competitions and reviews
		Two Way Monologue sees Sondre fulfil the promise of his debut with an audaciously non-difficult second album of astonishing maturity and vividly melodic songs.
		From the fragile acoustics of the melancholic It’s Too Late to the almost symphonic variations of the title track and on to the uplifting shiny pop candy of On The Tower, it’s an album of breath-taking diversity and imagination that refreshes popular music as a creative force.
		According to Sondre, they were central to the spirit of the album.
	c3.vmg.co.uk /sondrelerche (360 words)

	pastemusic.com: Sondre Lerche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sondre was introduced to what was to him "new" music within genres such as sixties pop, psychedelia, and Brazilian pop, and this led him into discovering artists and bands most teenagers have never even heard of.
		Sondre sings, plays the guitar and some keyboard, and the additional musicians on the album are: Lillian Samdal (vocal), Joergen Traen and Morten Skage (bass), Kato Aadland (guitar), H.P Gundersen (piano) and Frode Unneland (drums).
		Sondre Lerche has already proved himself to be a mature and skilled live musician.
	www.pastemusic.com /sondrelerche (1057 words)

	Lerche lulls crowd with soft songs
		Sondre Lerche's second and latest full-length release, "Two Way Monologue," is so delicate that it sounds as if it were recorded between stretches of hugging koala bears and watching the last five minutes of "Bridget Jones's Diary" over and over.
		Within minutes, Lerche brought out his new band, the Faces Down, and dished out justice Norwegian style: captivating swirls of bossa nova, dizzying acoustic guitar flourishes, soft jazz accents.
		Lerche would have made his hammer-and-sword-wielding ancestors proud.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/05/31/DDGV56TKIU1.DTL&type=printable (388 words)

	Two Way Monologue by Sondre Lerche CD
		Norway's Sondre Lerche was still a precocious teenager when he started recording yet his debut album displayed a mastery of pop classicism.
		Lerche is heavily influenced by orchestrated 1960s pop from both sides of the Atlantic (echoes of everything from the Beatles to Bacharch can be heard here), but TWO WAY MONOLOGUE never descends into a derivative retro feel.
		Lerche's gentle, vulnerable voice provides a friendly travel guide through the often-surprising melodic twists and turns of his writing and arrangements.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/6654645/a/Two+Way+Monologue.htm (415 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| Other pop:Charlotte Hatherley \| Slicker \| Sly and Robbie \| Sondre Lerche \| Julia Fordham
		The latest Wunderkind from the Norwegian town of Bergen (Lerche is 21) shares a definite kinship with its other arch softies, Kings of Convenience, and shows precocious skill melodically and musically.
		Lerche's cracked voice on 'Wet Ground' is slowly augmented by harmonies until the track is more barbershop than Brian Wilson.
		If only Lerche were as good with the words as he is with instrumentation - as the oxymoron of the title suggests, his lyrics are often eccentric.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1283313,00.html (819 words)

	JUNK Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sondre Lerche is a name that everyone in the know is familiar with in text form, nevermind that nobody in or out on this side of the Atlantic has any clue how to pronounce it.
		Norwegian Lerche may have gained much of his US audience by touring with cult-following artists like Liz Phair and Jason Mraz in recent years, but his steadily increasing notoriety among music lovers is fully due to his catalog of almost-pop, almost-folk, all-original insight put to song.
		In person, Sondre Lerche is every bit as talented, charming, and comfortable as his records would have you believe.
	www.junk-mag.com /words/sondrelerche.htm (1417 words)

	Sondre Lerche Interview - Mighty Like A Rose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On stage, Lerche somehow seems simultaneously a bit nervous and completely relaxed, and his music possesses the same quality—speaking to the vulnerability of human emotions in his audience, and then putting them at ease.
		Lerche spends a good portion of our conversation gushing about what an “enthusiastic, fantastic guy” new wave/British punk/alternative rock trailblazer Elvis Costello is, but somewhat surprisingly, Lerche didn’t receive any musical or career advice from his idol while supporting him in Canada.
		Lerche looks forward to hitting the road in the US again and again so he can get a fix of what has become his favorite American-style addiction.
	www.indierockresource.com /features/slerche/slerche.htm (2126 words)

	BBC - Nottingham - Entertainment - Sondre Lerche @ The Social 04/03/05
		The slight and unassuming Lerche mines nostalgic 60s Euro-pop and Andy Williams-like crooning effectively and with pleasing results, as most obviously exemplified by an audacious a capella rendition of Bing Crosby's 'Moonlight Becomes You' that completely silences his – unfortunately rather small – crowd.
		Lerche's own material also displays these characteristics, particularly 'Mother Nature', performed with the aid of crowd backing vocals, and encore 'Sleep On Needles', which displays somewhat more energy but still retains a strong sense of pop classicism.
		Lerche is an angular but vulnerable-looking character who also benefits greatly from being quite endearing in his voluminous between-song banter; with his dry humour and understated delivery, it's hard not to like him as a person and ultimately to wish him all the best on his voyage into pop's Valhalla.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nottingham/content/articles/2005/03/05/entertainment_music_reviews_2005_03_sondre_lerche_feature.shtml (451 words)

	Sondre Lerche: Norsk engel
		Sondre is likely glad that blurb mentioned his music at all: media gab-festers ever gush over his age.
		Sondre's incarnations remain ever male, and presumably heterosexual -- even as, unlike so many young men, he seems to feel no pressing need to prove he is either one.
		Sondre is, as he has said, a boy of "wee body." (If taller in life than I'd imagined.) And, for all I know, he maybe grew up Lutheran.
	www.rbebout.com /sondre/sondre.htm (6792 words)

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