This unassuming Boy Wonder from Bergen, Norway, (whose name is pronounced"Sonder Lerkay") wrote the songs for what would become his first album,Faces Down, when he was just 16. Often compared to the orchestralpop stylings of such masters as Burt Bacharach, Lerche's music manages tobend string orchestrations into a whole new indie realm, especially with theaddition of his warm and beguiling Scandinavian-accented vocal chords. Aftertouring with Beth Orton (and appearing onstag...
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