Phantom Punch

2007

With The Faces Down, CD and digital album, reissued on vinyl in 2012

Suggested reading

• The AV Club review
  “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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• Sputnik review
  “His intelligent, witty lyrics stay instead of pairing his rock music with simple, anthemic prose, and his songs sound different from everyone else’s simply because he writes with a jazz composer’s mind, making effective use of a dominant seventh when he has the chance”
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• Entertainment Weekly review
  “Quavering but sturdy, his tenor finds tenderness, longing, and regret in such downbeat acoustic gems as ”Tragic Mirror.”
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• Rolling Stone interview
  “It’s not a punk record. I’m Sondre Lerche”
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• The Guardian album story
  “It's that long-lost Antonio Carlos Jobim and the Cure collaboration”
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