Sondre Lerche - Phantom Punch
Reviewed by blake
Master Lerche looks like he took a phantom punch to the old breadbasket on the cover of his latest. It must be the backdraft from the searing rock n’ roll. What, you ask? Has Lerche gone the way of Garth Brooks, freakishly masquerading as the engimatic (or pathetic) Chris Gaines, or perhaps to a lesser extent Ryan Adams’ poseur-lite Rock N Roll? No, Lerche may be turning up the distortion and simplifying the song structure a bit, but he is still the unmistakably affable and sometimes linguistically befuddled Norwegian crooner. Phantom Punch may not be his banner material, but it doesn’t fall on its face either. Next up: Sondre Lerche and the Faces Down take on disco… [www.sondrelerche.com]