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Album Review: Passengers - Whispers

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Whispers is an admittedly more upbeat record than we’re used to hearing from the folk-singing Englishman.

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Passenger aka Mike Rosenberg, enjoyed a meteoric rise to the top with 2012's All The Little Lights, and its lead single, Let Her Go, which hit #1 in 20 countries. Recorded with co-producer Chris Vallejo in the same Sydney studio as All The Little Lights, Whispers is an admittedly more upbeat record than we're used to hearing from the folk-singing Englishman. Rosenberg elicits powerful imagery with his emotive, fragile voice and vivid storytelling on Bullets and Riding To New York. Meanwhile the influences of Cat Stevens and Simon & Garfunkel are unmistakable on the tranquil Golden Leaves.