Phantom Punch (album)

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Phantom Punch
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 6, 2007 (US)
RecordedApril 2006 – May 2006
Genre Pop
Length38:42
Label Astralwerks
Producer Tony Hoffer
Sondre Lerche chronology
Duper Sessions
(2006)
Phantom Punch
(2007)
Daytrotter Session
(2007)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 75/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
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Pitchfork Media 6.6/10 [3]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Phantom Punch is the fourth album by Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist Sondre Lerche. The album was released in the U.S. on February 6, 2007, and in Norway, Italy and Canada on February 19 that year.

Contents

The first single, "Phantom Punch", was released in August 2006. Norwegian Radio P3 held a contest to decide who would direct the video. Kristoffer Borgli won the contest, and the video he directed was released October 25, 2006. The next single to be released was "Say It All" (November 2006); the video for the single was also released in November. The third single is "The Tape" and was released in the UK in April.

Track listing

All songs written by Sondre Lerche.

No.TitleLength
1."Airport Taxi Reception"2:28
2."The Tape"2:37
3."Say It All"3:53
4."Phantom Punch"3:00
5."Tragic Mirror"3:58
6."Face the Blood"2:16
7."John, Let Me Go"4:07
8."Well Well Well"3:27
9."After All"3:05
10."She's Fantastic"2:23
11."Happy Birthday Girl"7:28

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References

  1. "Reviews for Phantom Punch by Sondre Lerche". Metacritic. Retrieved October 17, 2015.
  2. Sendra, Tim. Phantom Punch at AllMusic
  3. Pitchfork review
  4. Hoard, Christian (January 22, 2007). "Sondre Lerche: Phantom Punch". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on October 1, 2007. Retrieved November 16, 2020.