5.1 of 5.0 stars - not the eyes are the essence - the heart must stand in flames !!

The Bard Mike Rosenberg from Brighton aka Passenger's little plan to inflate its simple catchy his folk-rock pieces with great fanfare: it provides simple and ingenious only his own voice to the fore. Just get his 5th solo album out: "Whispers".

But who is Passenger? The guy is just thirty, and one he still says strum - just for fun with lot of fun - in the pedestrian area of ​​the common people. Passenger formed initially (7 years ago) as a duo. However, the partners have soon left the band. For five years now Mike Rosenberg is solely the Passenger. The whole thing languished over a low flame until last year, when he with the hit "Let Her Go" very catapulted upwards and in more than a dozen countries (SIC!) Among the top ten came. Thank goodness he still retained his boots at, sang and continues to sing the stories of the common man. The very sensitively and lyrically credible; especially the back contained sad and melancholic pieces that touch real.

Of the many coal but he allowed himself but a few small amenities in the studio: string section, brass accompaniment, piano on top of that, even flutes and a few singers in the background. His style but he remained faithful, as well as its currency, which is in itself in the core song Hearts on Fire heart that manifests in flames: the heart, not the success or fame or the coal that's it, that counts. Thus it is for me one of the greats, says Mr_E ...