Duper Sessions

Duper Sessions is the third album by Norwegian singer/songwriter and guitarist Sondre Lerche, released in Norway on 27 February 2006 and in the U.S. on March 21, 2006. The album entered the Billboard Official Top Contemporary Jazz Albums Chart at #5. The album was the 4th most added on the CMJ Jazz Chart during the first week of April 2006.

Duper Sessions
Studio album by
Released27 February 2006 (Norway)
March 21, 2006 (U.S.)
Recorded2005
GenreJazz, Indie pop
Length41:45
LabelAstralwerks
ProducerJorgen Træen
Sondre Lerche chronology
Two Way Monologue
(2004)
Duper Sessions
(2006)
Phantom Punch
(2007)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic70/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Pitchfork Media(6.1/10)[3]
PopMatters(6/10)[4]

Track listing

All songs by Sondre Lerche unless otherwise noted.

No.TitleLength
1."Everyone's Rooting for You"2:48
2."Minor Detail"3:34
3."Across the Land"1:17
4."The Curse of Being in Love"3:05
5."Dead End Mystery"3:28
6."Night and Day" (Cole Porter)2:23
7."Once in a While"3:09
8."Human Hands[5]" (Elvis Costello)2:34
9."(You Knocked Me) Off My Feet"4:55
10."(I Wanna) Call it Love"3:16
11."Nightingales" (Paddy McAloon)3:31
12."I'm Not From Here"2:00
13."You Sure Look Swell"4:11
14."Lulu-vise" (Knutsen & Ludvigsen (hidden track)) 

Personnel

  • Sondre Lerche – vocals, guitar, harmonica
  • The Faces Down Quartet
    • Eric Halvorsen – piano
    • Morten Skage – upright bass
    • Ole Ludvig Kruger – piano, drums
    • Kato Ådland – guitar, percussion, pedal steel
  • Matias J. Monsen – cello
  • Mari Boine Persen – violin
  • Jesper Riis – string arrangements
  • Jørgen Træen – percussion, backing vocals

Footnotes

  1. "Reviews for Duper Sessions by Sondre Lerche". Metacritic. Retrieved 2015-10-17.
  2. Tim Sendra (2006-03-21). "Duper Sessions - Sondre Lerche,Sondre Lerche and the Faces Down | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2015-10-17.
  3. Archived February 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Music Reviews, Features, Essays, News, Columns, Blogs, MP3s and Videos". PopMatters. Retrieved 2015-10-17.
  5. In the Norwegian and Japanese releases of the album, "Human Hands" is replaced by a cover version of "The More I See You", by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon.
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