First Listen: Sondre Lerche, 'Please' — npr.org

Sondre Lerche's new album, Please, comes out Sept. 23. Marius Hauge/Courtesy of the artist hide caption Sondre Lerche's new album, Please, comes out Sept. 23. For more than a decade, Norwegian-born singer-songwriter Sondre Lerche has made pop music his primary weapon in a full-frontal charm offensive. A slyly charismatic presence, he sings with an air of playful whimsy — it's no mistake that he was cast to write and perform the songs in the lightly melancholy 2007 romantic comedy Dan In Real Life — even when his subject matter veers into love's sordid underbelly and aftermath.

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