Mike Rosenberg, who goes by the stage name of Passenger, has quite the way with a somber melody at work in his current single "Let Her Go". It explores both how love and dreams build up slowly and go so fast. If you're a musician who has signed on to the rigors of the road there's no small grain of truth to the notion that you only hate the road when you're missing home. The anchor for this poignant song is a deep in the gut bass rhythm that wrenches every ounce of pathos possible out of the subject material. If you bring your ears in really closely you can quite literally taste the heartache dripping out of each bass note. As for Passenger's unique voice it isn't at all unlike that of an innocent child climbing out of the wreckage of the world around him to tell the adults in the room what he has learned to this point. The pacing is very definitely heavy of foot and bears the marks of someone on a journey where many pebbles are likely to take roost in his well-worn sneakers. The orchestral bent to this composition only heightens the high quality drama on display. Stitched together it is a pulsating ball of palpable anguish. If anyone remembers the Harlequin Romance novels this number would be an excellent companion piece to those. The single can be found on his CD "All The Little Lights". You'll definitely find this listening experience worth the effort.
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