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Whispers
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 21 Ratings

  • Summary: The sixth release for the British singer-songwriter Mike Rosenberg was produced by Chris Vallejo.
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  • Record Label: Nettwerk
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Indie Folk
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Heart's on Fire
Well I don't know how and I don't know why When something's living well you can't say die You feel like laughing but you start to cry I don't know... See the rest of the song lyrics
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Q Magazine
    Jun 13, 2014
    80
    These supremely accessible, expansively produced, mostly summery pop songs often suggest a less bilious, more fleet-footed Frank Turner. [Jul 2014, p.112]
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  2. The Guardian
    Jun 9, 2014
    80
    Rosenberg's strength is storytelling, and Whispers brims with striking vignettes.
  3. AllMusic
    Jun 9, 2014
    70
    Ultimately, with Whispers, Rosenberg has crafted an album of sweet, hummable anthems for tender-hearted troubadours everywhere.
  4. Blurt Magazine
    Jun 9, 2014
    60
    Ultimately, Whispers suggests a kind of sublime sensibility, sentiments that will hopefully encourage all potential fellow travelers to quickly get on board.
  5. Rolling Stone
    Jun 10, 2014
    50
    He takes on his indecisive twenties on "Rolling Stone" and "27," attempts a road epic on "Riding to New York," and, on "Scare Away the Dark," implores, "We want something real/Not just hashtags and Twitter." Impressively, he sings it like he thought of that cliché himself.
  6. The New York Times
    Jun 9, 2014
    50
    While Mr. Rosenberg can be affecting, the narrowness of his vision can be suffocating. Most of the time his lyrics are like teenager’s scribbled poems.
  7. Mojo
    Jul 24, 2014
    40
    More non-threatening folk-pop. [Jul 2014, p.96]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Juan7
    Dec 12, 2020
    10
    Se siente la frescura de album, él exploró sonidos auténticos y vaya que cambió.
  2. overtigo
    Nov 15, 2017
    10
    Passenger is an amazing story teller and once again with this album he has created an album full of songs I love! I am thoroughly impressedPassenger is an amazing story teller and once again with this album he has created an album full of songs I love! I am thoroughly impressed with the strength of this album. Completely relate-able. I look forward to more wonderful music from this troubadour!… Collapse
  4. runfromfire
    Aug 8, 2014
    7
    Some of it's forgettable folk-pop but when it hits the mark it hits so well that it makes up for the filler. Coins in a Fountain, 27, BulletsSome of it's forgettable folk-pop but when it hits the mark it hits so well that it makes up for the filler. Coins in a Fountain, 27, Bullets & Whispers are all highlights an call to mind some of the best first-wave folk I can think of but the coup de grâce - for me at least - is Riding to New York. Call me a sap but when he sings, "I want to see my granddaughter one last time. Want to hold her close and feel her tiny heartbeat next to mine." it's all I can do to not start bawling my eyes out.

    Lowlights? Scare Away the Dark. The album is a solid 8 up to that point and then this hackneyed and cliché diatribe against modernism comes on and almost ruins the entire experience for me. I've never experienced that: a beautiful, fantastic, heartrending song that makes me want to cry followed by something so solidly trite and annoying that I want to lob my phone across the room. It's an almost vertigo-inducing 180.    … Expand
  5. cryhardhumor
    Jul 18, 2015
    7
    Passenger has a definite style, which although is one I like a lot, is also not very diverse and causes the tracks to blend together to thePassenger has a definite style, which although is one I like a lot, is also not very diverse and causes the tracks to blend together to the point where after listening you might not be able to think back and identify one song from the others. However the tracks are good and there are enough of them that stand out (namely Whispers) to boost the album above those of other folk singers. I am really looking forward to seeing how Passenger improves and will be listening to his further albums… Expand

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