Avatars Of Love

Guarantee That I'd Be Loved (Live with KORK)

Avatars Of The Night

Understudy

Sea Of Sighs

Dead Of The Night

Cut / Turns Out I’m Sentimental After All

Turns Out I’m Sentimental After All

Guarantee That I’d Be Loved

Will We Ever Comprehend (feat. Rodrigo Alarcon & Ana Müller)

Summer In Reverse

Summer In Reverse (feat. CHAI)

Dead Of The Night looped 24 times. Happy Holidays!

Dead Of The Night (looped x24)

Alone In The Night

Taken from 'The Sleepwalker Original Soundtrack by Sondre Lerche & Kato Ådland' (Mona Records). Album available here: 
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sleepwalker-original-motion/id777746976
Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Sleepwalker-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B00H9JPC1M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389725842&sr=8-1&keywords=sondre+lerche+sleepwalker
Spotify http://open.spotify.com/album/4ybNbcJwNObznLK2q8Tk9O

Norway:
WiMP http://wimp.no/album/25145811
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/no/album/sleepwalker-original-motion/id794537071

Limited edition LP:
www.sondrelerche.11spot.com

Drums: David Heilman. 
Vocals, keyboard: Sondre Lerche.
Recorded at Studio 5071, Bergen, Ocean Sound, Giske and SL's basement, Brooklyn.

Palindromes - Sondre Lerche & Kato Ådland

Dinner for Schmucks (Music from the Motion Picture)

Dear Laughing Doubters

Guilty ('Sondre Lerche' bonus track)

As has become tradition, here is my Christmas gift to you in the shape of a cover of a song from the year that's about to end. Of the many songs I've loved this year (check out my 2013 playlist http://open.spotify.com/user/sondre_lerche/playlist/0YaYiFbwJrxf688j9qEPwn ), I had trouble finding one that I felt truly motivated to interpret. So while Wrecking Ball may not be the song loved the most in 2013, it turned out to be the one I would most like to play at 3 am last night. It was my friend, producer and drummer on this recording, Matias Tellez, who suggested we try a little Miley Cyrus this season. We recorded it live at Skogen, Matias' studio in Bergen where half of my next record is recorded (and where Matias also recorded one of the best records of the year with his band Young Dreams). It's a robust little fucker. A song that can withstand inhumane acts of twerking, overexposure, and yet another unwarranted cover. Please accept this gift as a token of my appreciation of you fantastic followers and/or fan. There's so much I cannot wait to share in 2014. This will be our year. Much love and Happy Holidays to all.

Sondre Lerche feat. Matias Tellez - Wrecking Ball

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsbd9j20JOs&list=PL5YH9ENcc7Y-B698dxK7njhkooBuoor6B

Lucifer

Lucifer, Venus at the break of dawn
I’m terrible with names but I love this one
Lucifer, I indulge the dusk at times
There is no finer sight than that of you tonight 

Everybody puts a prize on you, of course they do
All I wanna do is strike a match, set fire to you

I don’t mind it if we cannot speak
I don’t care much if we can
When you’re with me I don’t understand
Why on earth we would ever speak again

Lucifer, I prefer the simple life
Although we’ll never be quite of this earth
Lucifer, I tried so hard to capture you
I made a song and dance of the most natural advance

Everybody looks you up and down, with sordid plans
All I wanna do is strike a match, and shake the ground

I don’t mind it if we cannot speak
I don’t care much if we can
When you’re with me I don’t understand
Why on earth we would ever speak again
Why on earth would we ever speak again?

Words & music by Sondre Lerche
Recorded and produced by Matias Tellez at Skogen Studio, Bergen Aug 2012/2013. 
Mixed by Anthony Molina at White Light Recording, NY.
Sondre Lerche: vocals, guitars.
Dave Heilman: drums, percussion, keyboards.
Chris Holm: bass.
Alexander von Mehren: keyboards.
Matias Tellez: keyboards, vocals.

Sondre Lerche - Lucifer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsbd9j20JOs&list=PL5YH9ENcc7Y-B698dxK7njhkooBuoor6B

Sentimentalist

For a self-professed lover, romanticist at heart
I wasted less to no time at all
Tying the knot
Dying to not rot
But I’m no sentimentalist

Was a self-confessed tyro, so rational so far
Such a dumb way to get what you want
Loved you a lot, loved you a whole lot
But I’m no sentimentalist

Don’t I know you, my love?
Don’t I know you, my love?
You can ask me again, but you may never know
I’ll be damned if I fight
I’ll be damned if I don’t
In the end, would it count?
Don’t you know me, my love?
Don’t you know me, my love?
I may ask you again, but you may never know
I’ll be damned if I fight
I’ll be damned if I don’t

For a final farewell before everything falls down
You wasted less to no time at all
On a table for eight you set for a trio
You were no sentimentalist

Sought a mock independence, irrational and harsh
Such a sad way to get what you want
Love be the hurt and the consoler
But I’m no sentimentalist

Don’t I know you, my love?
Don’t I know you, my love?
You can ask me again, how the hell should I know?
I’ll be damned if I fight
I’ll be damned if I don’t
In the end, would it count?
Don’t you know me, my love?
Don’t you know me, my love?
I may ask you again, but you may never know
I’ll be damned if I fight
I’ll be damned if I don’t

Words & music by Sondre Lerche
Recorded and produced by Matias Tellez at Skogen Studio, Bergen Nov/Dec 2013. 
Mixed by Anthony Molina at White Light Recording, NY.
Sondre Lerche: vocals, acoustic guitar.
Dave Heilman: drums, percussion.
Chris Holm: bass, guitars.
Alexander von Mehren: keyboards, piano.

Sondre Lerche - Sentimentalist

Taken from the forthcoming album PLEASE. 
iTunes album preorder: http://smarturl.it/sondrelercheplease
BAD LAW video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkyUKXdFw_E
Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/1gIYmuZRyqUU0cqMKdEVle
Wimp Scandinavia: http://wimp.no/track/29742800

BAD LAW

My baby surrendered to fate
And I couldn’t even say how I felt later on that evening
Stating my name to the officer’s aide was in vain 
Cause I knew they were out to get me

Place four of five fingers flat on a sticky plastic bat
Scan my blue bloodshot eyes for the history of my trials

When crimes are passionate can love be separate?

En route to my cell I retraced every step
and found a way to redact and retell my story
No evidence and no witness to summon or finesse
I confess, it all sounds unlikely

A sweaty, paranoid palm pressed against a leathered wall
The law in all its flaws, me in an oversized overall 

When crimes are passionate can love be separate?

Baby it’s a bad, bad law 
It’s a bad, bad law, Geronimo
Baby it’s a bad, bad law 
It’s a bad, bad law, Geronimo
 
I straddled out on the stand
My defense scrawled on my hand
Killed time and time again but then I lost again

When crimes are passionate can love be separate?

Words & music by Sondre Lerche
Recorded, mixed and produced by Kato Ådland at Studio 5071, Bergen July/Dec 2013. 
Drums recorded by Henning Vatne Svoren at Ocean Sound, Giske July 2012.
Sondre Lerche: vocals, guitars.
Kato Ådland: bass, keyboards.
Dave Heilman: drums, percussion.

iTunes

Sondre Lerche - Bad Law

Guarantee That I'd Be Loved

Guarantee That I'd Be Loved (Bayonne Remix)

Turns Out I'm Sentimental After All

Turns Out I'm Sentimental After All (Roméo Poirier Rework)

Sunset Tower In The Rain

Guarantee That I'd Be Loved (Live with KORK) [feat. Kringkastingsorkestret]

Anti-Hero / Kiss Me More

Anti-Hero

Kiss Me More

Avatars Of Love (Lindstrøm Remix)

Now She Sleeps Beside Me (mmeadows Remix)

O Amor Ainda Espera

Showtime 1.2

Sentimentalist 2.0 (feat. Gabriela Garrubo)

Showtime 2.1

Post-Modern Nature

Ler meg ihjel

Ler meg ihjel (Fancy Colors Nissemix)

Produced, mixed and mastered by Matias Téllez at Skogen Studio. Cover image by Paal Strand.

What the world needs now, is not yet another cover of Hotline Bling, sweet lord. But there's no other huge song of 2015 I had wanted to sing more than Drake's irrational, wounded instant classic. So deal with it, and I'll at least spare you any further analysis, except to say it's a truly magnetic piece of music. My version was produced, recorded and mixed by Matias Tellez (Hotline Bling is one of his favorite songs of the year too) last night in Bergen, Norway in a mere 10 dark hours. At the end of the night we were quite fried, borderline hallucinating, and a nod to Milton Nascimento's immortal "Clube Da Esquina No 2" snuck into the outro. I believe this is the sixth annual Christmas cover I share with my dear followers and fans, who continue to be spirited, loyal, engaging and full of wonder as our paths cross out there, on and off stage, in various spheres and in the songs themselves. Thank you for listening, caring and sharing my music where you are. It matters to me. Everything does. Here's to yet another year that hopefully, despite terrifying, dark forces seeking to corrupt and confuse, will see us inspire each other to even greater heights, above, beyond.

Happy holidays & thanks for listening.

All the best,
-SL

Sondre Lerche - Hotline Bling (Drake cover)

Hey there -- my annual (9th? 10th?) holiday present to you simply had to be "thank u, next" this year. A lot of people guessed it already -- I hadn't really decided between "No tears left to cry" or this one when I sat down with my guitar the night before last to feel out the vibes. I loved them both the moment I heard them, but the explicit message of gratitude and acceptance in "thank u, next" swiftly inspired me to reimagine the lyrics to fit my own experiences - and for once, I felt this would need to happen in Norwegian (mostly).

All of this was recorded, mixed and mastered by Matias Tellez in Bergen, Norway between the hours of 11am and 8pm on December 22, 2018 - I sing and play the guitar, Matias plays everything else. 

Please enjoy, stay warm and peaceful this Christmas, and beyond. 
More love in 2019.
SL

PS: some more 2018 favorites if you're feeling it https://open.spotify.com/user/sondre_lerche/playlist/3ecxAtU62WhW8Eoud1gooV?si=QIk-mvzpTkq83LrzUoVWMw
--

thank u, next

Hadde troen på deg
Men det ble ikke oss
Slik jeg skrev om i sanger
Mine drømmer til tross
Jeg ble til og med gift 
Da jeg var tjueto
Selv om det gikk som det måtte
Så beholder jeg troen

En var en mor
En var en kompis
En var en elsker
Som kan bli en søster
Har elsket og tapt
Men det er ikke poenget
For se alt jeg har
Se alt du ga meg
Derfor sier jeg

Thank you, next…
Jeg har bare ømhet for min ex

Ble noe rot med en venn
Og jeg mistet meg selv
Så jeg fant opp en annen
Som jeg ble til en kveld
For jeg trengte så veldig raskt
En som var der konstant
Til jeg skjønte hvem jeg var
Og jeg holdt fast i han

En var en bror
En var en stjerne
En var meg sjøl
Langt der i det fjerne
Har elsket og tapt
Men det er ikke poenget
For se alt jeg har
Jeg trenger ikke lete
Derfor sier jeg

Thank you, next…
Jeg har bare ømhet for min ex

Plutselig skjedde noe stort
Større enn det jeg visste
Da jeg var god idiot
Og var nœr ved å miste deg
Så mye heller bare vœre her
Enn å leve i fortid
Eller love en fremtid
Som kanskje aldri når frem hit

Så mye ømhet
Med så mye glede
Med så mye takknemlighet
Jeg håper du ser det
Har elsket og tapt
Men det er ikke poenget
For se alt jeg har
Jeg trenger ikke si det
Men jeg synger likevel

Thank you, next…
Eg har bare ømhet for min ex

--
Photo by Jennifer Steele.

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