Two Way Monologue - Sondre Lerche
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78 out of 100

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9.4 out of 10

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  • Summary: 21-year-old Norwegian pop singer-songwriter Sondre Lerche returns with his second U.S. release.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. Urb
    100
    Lerche has a pop manual the size of the OED, and he's not the least bit bashful about using it. [Apr 2004, p.86]
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  2. Blender
    80
    An unexpected delight. [Apr 2004, p.132]
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  3. Uncut
    80
    Think swoonsome pop at its most non-cynical but with a left-field twist. [Aug 2004, p.98]
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  4. Mojo
    60
    The songs are a mite pretentious. [Sep 2004, p.99]
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  1. NealL
    10
    This album is extremely wonderful with its unique genre and Sondre's wonderfully calm and soothing voice. I rarly give albums a ten, but this is worth every compliment. Thank you Sondre Lerche… Expand
  2. multe4
    10
    I just love this album a actually it opend my world to music. For that I should have huged him but his a far way from here and u must forguve me for no doing so!… Expand
  3. raVen
    8
    Echo echo, Russ P. (below). The songs blur together at the end. They aren't bad songs that are the result of bad songwriting - it's just that they are similar, like he didn't finish what he was saying in the previous song. This leads to zoning out on the freeway and so on. But the music is uniformly pleasing, and the songs that DO stand out as being different (i.e., the first half-or-so of the album) present themselves as being exceptionally good and new and hip. Maybe I'd like the other half better if the whole album had been laid out in reverse, but I don't think so. Front-loaded, but worth the buy. And his name will make friends go "huh?"… Expand
  4. JyotirmayaD
    7
    There are few good songs here. I saw him perform most of this album live and it sounded much better live!?

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