Pop/Rock - Norwegian Sondre Lerche (LER-kay) hangs his hat in Brooklyn now but the boyish-looking 26-year-old singer/songwriter may as well be kicking around the streets of London in the days of smart 80's ironic pop/rock of U.K. pioneers Elvis Costello, XTC, Prefab Sprout and Roddy Frame's Aztec Camera. New album Heartbeat Radio sticks a sharply honed needle in that particular vein of brash and wordy, twisty and twisted musical tumult and draws out a crackling collection of thirteen new songs that hum with a taut urgency.

“My last few records were recorded with my backing band, Faces Down, almost live off the floor," says Lerche. "And those were a reaction to my first records, which were more studio affairs. On this album, I wanted both: I wanted the physical force and excitement from the live setting and the patience and the endless possibilities of the studio setting.” New collection, produced by Joe Chicarelli (My Morning Jacket, The Shins) comes on the heels of Lerche's much-praised soundtrack for the 2007 Steve Carell romantic comedy Dan In Real Life, a project that found him not only a wider audience but new label interest as well. A new maturity pulses through Hearbeat, a sense of adventure that's also made more compelling - and grounded - with a skilled genre-blurring songcraft at work.

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