‘Ghosts’ finds Passenger at his most unguarded

Wild Love arrives on 6 November, with consecutive Irish headline nights already set for the 3Olympia and the Ulster Hall in September 2027.

Passenger has shared ‘Ghosts’, the latest track taken from Wild Love, the album scheduled for release on 6 November. The song is built around sparse piano, slide guitar and Mike Rosenberg’s understated vocal. It turns on the final stages of a relationship and on the difficulty of letting go.

Rosenberg has described ‘Ghosts’ as the final song on the album and “a really special one for me”. He has said it was written for his partner and draws on personal experience. That framing sits inside a wider claim for the record itself: Wild Love is presented as Passenger’s most personal album to date, one that reflects on his recent marriage and on becoming a father.

The English singer-songwriter, long associated with the reach of ‘Let Her Go’, is working here in a quieter register. The arrangement leaves space around the voice. Piano and slide guitar carry the weight; nothing in the public description of the track suggests a large production or a crowded mix. The subject is parting and the stubborn hold of attachment, handled without grand gesture.

A piano on a Cornish beach

A performance-based video directed by Nic Minns accompanies the single. It was filmed in Cornwall with a piano set on the beach. The clip stays with the performance rather than building a separate story around it, matching the spare character of the song. Weather, sand and instrument become the setting; Rosenberg sings in that open space. The choice keeps the eye on the craft — the vocal, the touch on the keys, the slide line — instead of on a plot.

Wild Love will be issued digitally and in physical formats. Those include coloured vinyl and a deluxe hardcover book CD. The physical editions treat the record as an object as well as a set of files, with the book format offering a more lasting home for the artwork and the words that sit beside the songs.

Two Irish nights in September 2027

An extensive tour is already mapped for 2027. On that run Passenger plays a headline show at Belfast’s Ulster Hall on 8 September 2027, the night after a Dublin date at the 3Olympia on 7 September. The pairing gives the island two consecutive stops on the campaign that will carry Wild Love into live rooms.

For listeners who keep these artists on daily rotation, the dates land with clear weight. The Ulster Hall and the 3Olympia are proper theatre stages, and consecutive nights make a defined Irish leg rather than a single stop squeezed between larger markets. Further routing sits with the wider 2027 plans; what stands confirmed is that Dublin and Belfast are locked in sequence.

‘Ghosts’ arrives as the campaign’s latest marker and as the album’s intended last word. Rosenberg’s own language around the track — final song, written for his partner, special to him — sets the tone for what Wild Love asks the listener to hear. The full album follows on 6 November. The Irish dates follow the year after. Between those points the single stands as the quiet close of a record built, on the artist’s own account, from marriage, fatherhood and the long work of holding on and letting go.