An interview with Jerry Seinfeld in the newest issue of Entertainment Weekly features the interviewer asking whether the bee man would ever be interested in acting in movies, say for instance one directed by a fella like Wes Anderson and Seinfeld apparently answered with an excited exclamation point that he would, but he didn’t think people thought about him as an actor who would do things like that. The same probably goes for Steve Carell these days. From trailers, Carell seems like the same guy in “Dan In Real Life” as he was in “40-Year-Old Virgin” and “Evan Almighty.” Too bad. Now he’s the dude who will always be known as Michael from “The Office.” It could have been different, now he’s just kind of like the new Owen Wilson and Jeff Goldblum – not that there’s anything wrong with that. There is one undeniable reason to see Carell’s newest motion picture, however, in addition to the acting, screenplay and character development (who knows if those are up to snuff or not) and that’s the soundtrack done almost single-handedly by Daytrotter favorite Sondre Lerche. Our quick interaction with Lerche down in Austin, Texas, over the hype-tastic and hectic South By Southwest week was such a pleasure and the results from it – a set of songs that make you feel their ecstatic inner glowing – are really essential listening. Director Peter Hedges writes in the liner notes of the soundtrack about Lerche, “His music was timeless and hopeful and sad sometimes and always original and, most of all, I remember having the distinct feeling that this was a man who believed in love.” So much of the original songs on this soundtrack go to illustrate that point exactly. Though love is a universal feeling that any animal can feel, Lerche – more than anyone else making music today – feel precisely human. He makes it feel like embracing sunlight, easily breakable, but never bendable. He makes it feel as if you can’t do without it when it’s good, when it’s perfect, when it loves you back. He’s so young, that Lerche, and he’s already found so many ways to love us all back with his charm and his gorgeous pop songs.

Sondre Lerche Daytrotter Session