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| 6.6 by Pitchfork Media |
"Tin Pan Alley is gone," Bob Dylan famously once said. "I put an end to
it." Good thing Mr. Zimmerman didn't copy us all on that
self-mythologizing memo. The sophisticated rhym... |
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| 3 by Rolling Stone |
Norwegian singer-songwriter Sondre Lerche built a devoted following stateside with a series of Starbucks-friendly albums that showed a gift for classic-pop melodies and rich, idiosyncratic guitar-keyb... |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
For all the progress the record represents, Punch is a schizophrenic release. |
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| n/a by www.stylusmagazine.com |
With Phantom Punch Sondre Lerche finally makes good on the promise of his talent; he’s mastered and polished his intuitive gift for melody and arrangement and rightly applied it to his most natural musical inclinations. |
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| n/a by www.ew.com |
Phantom Punch may not pack the razzle-dazzle of Duper, but it just might help this gifted performer cement his rep for smartly crafted alt-pop. |
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| n/a by www.nowtoronto.com |
Phantom Punch is a wobbly ride through tracks that, for the most part, hiss and snarl with the leather-jacket swagger of his garagey backing band while Lerche either nervously essays a pseudo-rock "growl" over top or reverts to his customary loungey warble, both of which sound equally absurd. |
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| n/a by www.prefixmag.com |
On its own merits, Phantom Punch is an assured, absurdly tuneful record, and one of the best of the year thus far. |
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| n/a by www.austinchronicle.com |
Punch buries its best shots behind too much guitar and gratuitous arrangements. |
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| n/a by www.avclub.com |
Phantom Punch's palette contains dollops of everyone from The Clash to The Sea And Cake to name-your-favorite-shoegaze-band, but most of all, the album's freewheeling energy brings to mind Supergrass' finest moments. |
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| n/a by www.sputnikmusic.com |
A masterpiece of edgy, pop-infused rock composed with intelligence. |
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| n/a by www.cokemachineglow.com |
Phantom Punch is a good album, but not a great one, and certainly not the Career Record that Duper Sessions almost was. |
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| n/a by www.ctnow.com |
It hits hard without sacrificing any of Lerche's classic pop appeal. |
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| n/a by www.boston.com |
Unlike previous efforts at stylistic hop-scotch, "Phantom Punch" is Lerche's most comfortable album since "Faces Down." |
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| n/a by arts.guardian.co.uk |
Mostly what's missing is a dash of original thinking: without it, the album struggles to rise above the ordinary. |
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| n/a by www.filter-mag.com |
Lerche croons and swoons between styles like a prophet of postmodern pomp. |
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