Album Review: Sondre Lerche — consequenceofsound.net

Should we believe Sondre Lerche when he goes on the record saying he’s no sentimentalist? This is a guy who has made a career out of pumping out charmingly polite love songs in a strictly European pop rock tradition. It’s not unfair to say that sentimentality has run thick through the Norwegian singer’s catalog since he started shipping albums across the pond in 2001. Yet here he is, proudly proclaiming on Please‘s strongest song, “I loved you a lot, but I’m no sentimentalist.” I think he’s in on the joke, though; the song is called “Sentimentalist”, no negative modifier to be found.

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