Sondre Lerche - Pleasure (2017) [FLAC] torrent

Sondre Lerche - Pleasure (2017) [FLAC]

Genre: Rock
Style: Indie
Source: WEB
Codec: FLAC
Bit rate: ~ 900 kbps
Bit depth: 16
Sample rate: 44.1 kHz

01 Soft Feelings
02 I'm Always Watching You
03 Serenading in the Trenches
04 I Know Something That's Gonna Break Your Heart
05 Siamese Twin
06 Bleeding Out Into the Blue
07 Reminisce
08 Hello Stranger
09 Violent Game
10 Baby Come to Me

After a few albums in a row that staked out Sondre Lerche's claim as one of the better sophisticated pop craftsmen around, especially on 2014's Please, the Norwegian crooner takes a whiplash-inducing left turn on his 2017 album Pleasure. He carefully sets aside the guitar-heavy, almost middle-of-the-road pop sound he'd so carefully developed in favor of an approach that relies on programmed drums and loads of icy synthesizers, and mostly puts guitars in the passenger seat. Gone are the carefully arranged songs that sound like gems from the early Aztec Camera or Prefab Sprout catalogs. In their place are songs lifted from a different part of the '80s where New Order-ish programming-meets-New Edition robofunk; thudding electronic drums pair with huge washes of synths; and the emotions are written in ten-foot-high technicolor letters instead of casual asides. It's a daring move that might have seemed cheesy or opportunistic in the hands of a lesser artist, but Lerche is skilled enough to wrangle very imaginative sounds out of his array of synthesizers, fill the arrangements with hook after hook, and make sure to fill the center of the cotton-candy pop with a heart made of real emotion. It's a brilliant sonic reboot that takes songs that would have been strong in Lerche's already almost-perfected style, and blows them into little fragments before reassembling them in such a way that makes them glitter and constantly surprise