Passenger – Wild Love (Natural Beige Vinyl LP)

The uplifting, energised atmosphere of the ‘Wild Love’ album opens with its most direct moment, the infectious ode-to-change of the live favourite ‘Boomerang’. The title track and centrepiece ‘Wild Love’ will also be familiar from shows, a delicate piano-based country song which taps into the elation and fear that came as the couple’s relationship took shape. There are sonic surprises too, such as the way in which the frisky ‘Caution to the Wind’ draws on both 70’s Elton John and the insistent keys of Bruce Hornsby and the Range’s ‘The Way It Is’, or the 80’s synth embellishments on `Lightning Strikes’.