Sondre Lerche

Sondre Lerche has always been a romantic. Whether it be the songs he wrote as a teen for his critically acclaimed 2001 debut, Faces Down, or starring as the love-lorn Christian in the Norwegian stage production of Moulin Rouge! The Musical. In 2026, though, his love of, well, love is shot through with a kind of defiance. The result is Lerche’s 11th studio album, Acrobats, an eight-song suite that pingpongs between joy and introspection, loss and love — directly informed by his work on the stage. “Acting in a musical you have to find a way to project really big, and yet ground it in something true, which is such a challenge, especially when you’re new to it,” he says. “There's no room for subtlety. And I think that stuck with me into the process of recording Acrobats: daring to be very clear and bombastic in every choice, and rooting it in sincerity and tenderness.”