Duper Sessions

Duper Sessions
Studio album by Sondre Lerche
Released	27 February 2006 (2006-02-27)
Recorded	2005
Genre	Jazz, indie pop
Length	41:45
Label	Astralwerks
Producer	Jorgen Træen
Sondre Lerche chronology
Two Way Monologue (2004) Duper Sessions (2006) Phantom Punch (2007)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	70/100 [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Pitchfork	(6.1/10) [3]
PopMatters	(6/10) [4]

Duper Sessions is the third album by Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist Sondre Lerche, released in Norway on 27 February 2006, and in the US on 21 March 2006. The album entered the Billboard Official Top Contemporary Jazz Albums Chart at No. 5. The album was the 4th most added on the CMJ Jazz Chart during the first week of April 2006.

Track listing

All songs by Sondre Lerche unless otherwise noted.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Everyone's Rooting for You"	2:48
2.	"Minor Detail"	3:34
3.	"Across the Land"	1:17
4.	"The Curse of Being in Love"	3:05
5.	"Dead End Mystery"	3:28
6.	"Night and Day" (Cole Porter)	2:23
7.	"Once in a While"	3:09
8.	"Human Hands [5] " (Elvis Costello)	2:34
9.	"(You Knocked Me) Off My Feet"	4:55
10.	"(I Wanna) Call it Love"	3:16
11.	"Nightingales" (Paddy McAloon)	3:31
12.	"I'm Not From Here"	2:00
13.	"You Sure Look Swell"	4:11
14.	"Lulu-vise" (Knutsen & Ludvigsen (hidden track))	1:34

Personnel

• Sondre Lerche – vocals, guitar, harmonica
• The Faces Down Quartet
  • Eric Halvorsen – piano
  • Morten Skage – upright bass
  • Ole Ludvig Kruger – piano, drums
  • Kato Ådland – guitar, percussion, pedal steel
• Matias J. Monsen – cello
• Mari Boine Persen – violin
• Jesper Riis – string arrangements
• Jørgen Træen – percussion, backing vocals

Footnotes

1. "Reviews for Duper Sessions by Sondre Lerche". Metacritic. Retrieved October 17, 2015.
2. Tim Sendra (March 21, 2006). "Duper Sessions – Sondre Lerche,Sondre Lerche and the Faces Down | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic . Retrieved October 17, 2015.
3. Archived February 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
4. "Sondre Lerche and the Faces Down Quartet". PopMatters. Archived from the original on November 18, 2007. Retrieved October 17, 2015.
5. In the Norwegian and Japanese releases of the album, "Human Hands" is replaced by a cover version of "The More I See You", by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon.

External links

• Sondre Lerche official website
• Duper Sessions reviews on Metacritic