Passenger has released his most personal album yet. Wild Love arrived on Friday, 6 November 2026, his first full-scale album since 2021’s Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted, which reached No. 2 in the UK and the Top 10 across Europe.
The album has 14 tracks, written over five to six years and recorded in the summer of 2025 with longtime producer Chris Vallejo at a new studio in the South Downs, converted from an old agricultural barn.
Singer-songwriter Mike Rosenberg, who performs as Passenger, describes it as his most personal album ever. It traces his unexpected turn from longtime solo traveller to husband and father — a new relationship, a marriage a few months ago, and the birth of his daughter.
The album includes “Bonnie Song”, written for his daughter, and a cover of Taylor Swift’s “willow”, from her 2020 album evermore. The closing track, “Ghosts”, is about letting go of an old relationship to embrace a new one; Rosenberg wrote it for his partner.
“I wasn’t sure I’d get to have a family… lo and behold, it happened. In a really romantic, weirdly Hollywood way. It turned out that the love of my life had been there the whole time,” Rosenberg said.
Physical editions include two exclusive coloured vinyl versions and a deluxe hardcover book CD. An extensive 2027 headline tour is planned across the UK, Europe, Ireland and Australia.
It has been a big week for new albums, from Skepta ending a seven-year wait with The Fork and Knife to the Soul Train Awards 2026 honouring Chaka Khan. Passenger’s Wild Love is out now.
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