Following the release of his critically-acclaimed new album, Acrobats, earlier this month, Sondre Lerche has released the official video for “Drive Me Away From You.” Directed by rising filmmaker Lea Meyer, who also directed the video for the album’s lead single “Little Kids”, the video stars Lerche alongside award-winning Norwegian actress Petronella Barker as two lovestruck runaways. “I just wanted to make romantic video about two love-struck runaways! We don’t know what they’re escaping, maybe it’s just this gloomy, dystopian, dumpster fire world we live in. But I thought it would be cool for the video to take the song quite literally, and director Lea Meyer again brought real beauty and elegance to her take on it,” said Lerche.
The artist adds: “She showed me Wild At Heart, which I had never actually seen, and then I saw Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild, so those two became our inspirational touchstones. I’ve always loved the Norwegian award-winning actress Petronella Barker, and so we reached out and asked her if she’d consider starring in it with me. She’s a legend! And a real joy and honor to work with. It’s a little slice of cinema in short form!” His first full-length album of new material in over four years, Acrobats is a bold, bombastic and emotionally expansive collection that wrestles with finding love in an increasingly uncertain world. Across the eight song suite, the singer moves between joy and introspection, while exploring love not as an escape from reality but as a way of confronting it.
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