Passenger

Hotly tipped and backed by major record company money, Brighton indie rockers Passenger – founded in 2003 by Michael Rosenberg and Andrew Phillips - were set to be the next big thing in the late-2000s, but when debut album Wicked Man's Rest (2007) flopped, the group split and chief singer-songwriter Rosenberg took to busking on the streets and living the life of a travelling troubadour. Finding himself in Australia, he continued playing under the moniker Passenger and befriended singer Josh Pyke who helped Rosenberg's album Flight of the Crow (2009) become an underground favorite across the country. Inspired by the likes of Cat Stevens, Paul Simon and Neil Young, he went on to support Ed Sheeran, Kate Nash and Jools Holland in Europe before his single 'Let Her Go' became a worldwide hit and reached Number 2 in the UK. Full of humble, honest acoustic pop and swooning, heart-on-sleeve ballads, the fuller arrangements and grander production of fourth album All the Little Lights (2012) took it to Number 3 in the UK and affirmed Rosenberg's reputation as one of Britain's brightest young songwriters. He followed up with Whispers and Whispers II in 2014 and 2015 with Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea becoming his first Number 1 album in 2016. The Boy Cried Wolf saw a 2017 release with his tenth studio album, Runaway, released in 2018. The album Sometimes It’s Something, Sometimes It’s Nothing at All followed in 2019. Rosenberg’s 2020 album Patchwork was written, recorded, and released during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 album Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted was recorded and scheduled to be released before the pandemic but released a year later.

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