Passenger s 13th Album Goes Out to His Fellow Broken Hearts
By Tom Lanham | January 8, 2021 | 10:55am
Photo by Mila Austin
Sometimes an album turns out to be exactly what it promised it was in its title. Like
Songs For the Drunk and Broken Hearted, for instance, the latest and 13th overall effort from Passenger, the folk-pop persona of former British street busker Mike Rosenberg. It details a recent real-life breakup the Brighton-based singer endured after a three-and-a-half-year romance, starting with a letter-to-his-ex opener “Sword From the Stone” and wending its lyrically-somnolent-but-musically-upbeat way through “Tip of My Tongue” (“If I would’ve known what I know today/ I would’ve lived my life like a smoking gun”), “Remember to Forget” (in which he reminds future suitors that he’s a “heavy drinker and a chain smoker”), a Saw Doctors-sprightly “A Song For the Drunk and Broken Hearted,” and the closing “London in the Spring” (“I�