Passenger was formed in May 2003 by Mike Rosenberg and Andrew Phillips. Mike and Andrew added bassist Marcus O' Dair, drummer Alon Cohen from Israel and keyboard player Richard Brincklow to the line-up.
The 5-person band's debut album “Wicked Man's Rest”, was released in 2007 on Chalkmark.
The band split up in 2009, but Mike Rosenberg kept the the moniker Passenger and released the album “Wide Eyes Blind Love” in 2009.
The follow-up album was “Flight of the Crow” from 2010 was recorded in Australia and featured a lot of guess musicians.
His breakthrough album “All the Little Lights” which featured his world-wide smash hit, "Let Her Go", was released in 2012.
Selected significant band members:
Mike Rosenberg: Born May 17, 1984 Vocals, guitar and songwriter
Andrew Phillips: Guitar and songwriter. Left after the first album
Marcus O'Dair: Bass. Left after the first album
Alon Cohen: Drums. Left after the first album
Richard Brincklow: Keyboards. Left after the first album
Discography:
1. Wicked Man's Rest - Chalkmark 2007 Tracks:
1. Wicked Man's Rest / 2Walk You Home / 3. Things You've Never Done / 4. Girl I Once Knew / 5. Do What You Like / 6. Needle in the Dark / 7. Four Horses / 8. You're on My Mind / 9. For You / 10. Walk in the Rain / 11. Table for One
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2. Wide Eyes Blind Love - 2009
Tracks:
1. The Last Unicorn / 2. What Will Become of Us / 3. I See Love / 4. Rainbows / 5. Caravan / 6. Wide Eyes / 7. Underwater Bride / 8. Starlings / 9. Blind Love / 10. Snowflakes
Rating :
3. Divers and Submarines - 2009
Tracks:
1. Community Centre / 2. Explicit Fairytales & Firesides / 3. & Submarines / 4. Facebook / 5. House on a Hill / 6. Two Tales / 7. Intacto / 8. Brick Walls / 9. Crows in Snow
Rating :
4. Flight of the Crow - 2010
Tracks:
1. Month Of Sundays / 2. What You're Thinking / 3. Shape Of Love / 4. The One You love / 5. Golden Thread / 6. Rivers / 7. Travelling Song / 8. The Girl Running / 9. Diamonds / 10. Bloodstains / 11. Flight Of The Crow
Rating :
5. All the Little Lights - 2012
Tracks:
1. Things That Stop You Dreaming / 2. Let Her Go / 3. Staring At the Stars / 4. All the Little Lights / 5. The Wrong Direction / 6. Circles / 7. Keep On Walking / 8. Patient Love / 9. Life's for the Living / 10. Holes / 11. Feather On the Clyde / 12. I Hate
Rating : 8
6. Whispers - 2014
Tracks:
1. Coins in a Fountain / 2. 27 / 3. Heart's On Fire / 4. Bullets / 5. Golden Leaves / 6. Thunder / 7. Rolling Stone / 8. Start a Fire / 9. Whispers / 10. Riding to New York / 11. Scare Away the Dark
Rating :
7. Whispers II - 2015
Tracks:
1. Fear of Fear / 2. Catch in the Dark / 3. A Thousand Matches / 4. I'll Be Your Man / 5. Travelling Alon / 6. David / 7. Words / 8. The Way That I Need You / 9. Strangers / 10. Nothing's Changed
Rating :
8. Young as the Morning Old as the Sea - Nettwerk 2016
Tracks:
1. Everything / 2. If You Go / 3. When We Were Young / 4. Anywhere / 5. Somebody's Love / 6. Young as the Morning Old as the Sea / 7. Beautiful Birds / 8. The Long Road / 9. Fool's Gold / 10. Home
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9. Sunday Night Sessions - Black Crow 2017
Tracks:
1.Hotel California / 2. Fast Car / 3. Ain't No Sunshine / 4. Heart of Gold / 5. Angie / 6. Love Will Tear Us Apart / 7. And It Stoned Me / 8. Girl From the North Country / 9. Losing My Religion / 10. A Change Is Gonna Come
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10. The Boy Who Cried Wolf - Black Crow 2017
Tracks:
1. Simple Song / 2. Sweet Louise / 3. The Boy Who Cried Wolf / 4. Walls / 5. Setting Suns / 6. And I Love Her / 7. Someday / 8. In the End / 9. Thunder and Lightning / 10. Lanterns
Rating :
11. Runaway - Black Crow 2019
Tracks:
1.
Hell or High Water / 2. Why Can't I Change / 3. Heart to Love / 4. Let's Go / 5. He Leaves You Cold / 6. Ghost Town / 7. Runaway / 8. Eagle Bear Buffalo / 9. To Be Free / 10. Survivors
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12. Sometimes It's Something, Sometimes It's Nothing at All - Black Crow 2019
Tracks:
1. Restless Wind / 2. Sometimes It's Something, Sometimes It's Nothing at All / 3. Rosie / 4. Let Me Dream a While / 5. Only Time / 6. Helplessly Lost / 7. Paper Cut, Chinese Burn / 8. Where the Lights Hang Low / 9. Moon on the River / 10. Winter Coats
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13. Patchwork - Black Crow 2020
Tracks:
1. Sword from the Stone / 2. Year on Year, Day by Day / 3. Patchwork / 4. Venice Canals / 5. Queenstown / 6. Swimming Upstream / 7. Someone You Loved / 8. Summer Rain
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14. Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted - Black Crow 2021
Tracks:
1. Sword from the Stone / 2. Tip of My Tongue / 3. What You're Waiting For / 4. The Way That I Love You / 5. Remember to Forget / 6. Sandstorm / 7. A Song for the Drunk and Broken Hearted / 8. Suzanne / 9. Nothing Aches Like a Broken Heart / 10. London in the Spring
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15. Birds That Flew and Ships That Sailed - Black Crow 2022
Tracks:
1. Bird in Flight / 2. Against the Grain / 3. Chasing Gold / 4. Birds That Flew and Ships That Sailed / 5. Blink of an Eye / 6. However It comes, Wherever It Goes / 7. New Until It's Old / 8. I Won't Be There That Day / 9. Do What's Right / 10. Going Going Gone
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Essential Albums!
Original albums as listed and rated on “Rate Your Music” - May 13 - 2013
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May 14 - 2013 - "rateyourmusic.com"
My Suggestion For a 80 minutes (app.) Best Of Compilation ( More tracks will be added eventually):
1. Let Her Go ( Rosenberg ) All the Little Lights
2. Wrong Direction ( Rosenberg ) All the Little Lights
3. Keep on Walking ( Rosenberg ) All the Little Lights
4. All the Little Lights ( Rosenberg ) All the Little Lights
5. Staring at the Stars ( Rosenberg ) All the Little Lights
6. I Hate ( Rosenberg ) All the Little Lights
LINKS:
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