Sondre Lerche & The Faces Down
14 Mar 08, Fri Concert Hall $58
Norway
"A ridiculously talented, outrageously gorgeous 25-year-old who's already released...albums of zingy, part-Elvis Costello, part-Prefab Sprout, classic pop." - Guardian Unlimited
The songs of Sondre Lerche are built for happy listening.
Mostly pop-rock with light, wry lyrics, clean melodies, simple arrangements and a cool Nordic sweetness, they lie in that shimmering, amorphous space between pensiveness and good cheer. In this and several other ways, they sometimes bring to mind the music of the new romantics of the 80s, an era Sondre often pays homage to.
At 18, after practicing his singing-songwriting as a young teenage in Bergen nightclubs, he broke into the Norwegian pop scene with his first album, Faces Down (2001), a compilation of melodic, 80s-influenced, folk-pop originals that became an instant hit on Norwegian charts and was listed in American magazine Rolling Stone's top-50-albums-of-2002 list. Subsequent albums, Two Way Monologue (2004), Duper Sessions (2006) Phantom Punch (2007), and the Dan in Real Life soundtrack (2007) revealed a growing maturity and additional influences.
In this concert, Sondre and his band The Faces Down delivers some of his latest songs. Sit back and enjoy!
Concert Hall
11pm (60mins, no intermission)
$58
Limited concessions for students, NSF and senior citizens: $40