Faces Down

by Sondre Lerche

Faces Down cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 2001
  • Label: Virgin
  • Country: Norway
  • Length: 1:30:59
  • Community rating: 3.59/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A remarkably assured debut from the teenage Norwegian songwriter, 'Faces Down' established a sophisticated, bossa-nova tinged approach to modern indie pop. The album features incredibly lush chamber-pop arrangements that perfectly support his highly melodic, romantic, and deceptively mature lyricism.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, breezy, acoustic, syncopated, lounge

Tracklist

  1. Dead Passengers (4:22)
  2. You Know so Well (4:15)
  3. Sleep On Needles (4:45)
  4. Suffused with Love (2:50)
  5. Side Two (4:36)
  6. Modern Nature (3:36)
  7. Virtue and Wine (5:20)
  8. On and off Again (5:06)
  9. No One's Gonna Come (4:38)
  10. All Luck Ran Out (4:25)
  11. Things You Call Fate (9:25)
  12. I Won't Quote - Bonus Track (5:09)
  13. I Can Only Let You Down - Bonus Track (3:17)
  14. Don't Be Shallow - Bonus Track (4:07)
  15. Rosebud - Bonus Track (4:06)
  16. I Know I Know - Bonus Track (3:02)
  17. Living Lounge - Bonus Track (5:20)
  18. A Dial Away - Bonus Track (8:43)
  19. John, Let Me Go - Bonus Track (3:48)

Credits

  • Sondre Lerche - primary artist, arranged by
  • Marcus Holdaway - arranged by [strings]
  • Sean O'Hagan - arranged by [strings]
  • Morten Skage - bass
  • Frode Unneland - drums, percussion
  • Kato 脜dland - guitar
  • Lena Ulven - make-up
  • Bergmund Waal Skaslien - viola

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