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{{Infobox album
| name       = Young as the Morning Old as the Sea
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Passenger (singer)|Passenger]]
| cover      = Young-as-the-Mountain-Old-as-the-Sea-Passenger.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 23 September 2016
| recorded   = 2015–16
| venue      =
| studio     = {{hlist|Linear Recording Studios, [[Sydney]], [[Australia]]|[[Roundhead Studios]], [[Auckland]], [[New Zealand]]|Black Crow Studios, [[Brighton]], [[United Kingdom]]}}
| genre      = {{hlist|[[Country music|Country]]|[[folk rock]]|[[indie folk]]}}
| length     = 41:51
| label      = {{hlist|[[Nettwerk]]|Black Crow|[[Cooking Vinyl]]}}
| producer   = {{hlist|[[Passenger (singer)|Mike Rosenberg]]|Chris Vallejo}}
| prev_title = [[Whispers II]]
| prev_year  = 2015
| next_title = Sunday Night Sessions
| next_year  = 2017
| misc       = {{Extra chronology
| artist     = [[Passenger (singer)|Passenger]] studio album
| prev_title = [[Whispers II]]
| prev_year  = 2015
| title      = Young as the Morning Old as the Sea
| year       = 2016
| next_title = [[The Boy Who Cried Wolf (Passenger album)|The Boy Who Cried Wolf]]
| next_year  = 2017
}}
{{Singles
| name        = Young as the Morning Old as the Sea
| type        = studio
| single1     = [[Somebody's Love]]
| single1date = 17 June 2016
| single2     = [[Anywhere (Passenger song)|Anywhere]]
| single2date = 19 August 2016
}}
}}
'''''Young as the Morning Old as the Sea''''' is the seventh studio album by [[Passenger (singer)|Passenger]]. It was released on 23 September 2016 on Black Crow Records. It topped the [[Record chart|charts]] in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] and other countries. A deluxe edition was released containing six additional acoustic versions of songs appearing on the album. The album was produced by Chris Vallejo and [[Passenger (singer)|Mike Rosenberg]].
==Background==
On 17 June 2016, Passenger announced details of his seventh studio album on [[Facebook]], confirming that the album would be released in September 2016. He also announced that the deluxe version of the album would include a documentary and some acoustic bonus tracks. The landscapes in both New Zealand and on a trip Passenger took in Iceland lent inspiration to the creation of a newly panoramic album, with themes of relationships and the passing of time that are at once personal and universal. The album was recorded in [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]] and [[United Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nettwerk.com/news/2016/passenger-announces-new-album-out-september-23-shares-official-video-somebodys-love|title=Passenger Announces New Album Out September 23; Shares Official Video For "Somebody's Love"|publisher=Nettwerk|access-date=24 September 2016|archive-date=2 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202232232/http://nettwerk.com/news/2016/passenger-announces-new-album-out-september-23-shares-official-video-somebodys-love|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[https://www.facebook.com/PassengerOfficial/posts/10154021002968964 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT !!!!!]. [[Facebook]]</ref> Canadian group [[The Once]], who joined Rosenberg on his Whispers tour, contributed backing vocals on the album.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/young-as-the-morning-old-as-the-sea-mw0002955911/credits|title=Young as the Morning Old as the Sea - Passenger &#124; Credits &#124; AllMusic|website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>
==Singles==
"[[Somebody's Love]]" was released as the lead single from the album on 17 June 2016.<ref>[https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/somebodys-love-single/id1123058292 Somebody's Love - Single by Passenger on Apple Music]</ref> "[[Anywhere (Passenger song)|Anywhere]]" was released as the second single from the album on 19 August 2016. The song has peaked at number 43 on the [[ARIA Charts|Australian Singles Chart]]. "Young As The Morning, Old As The Sea" was used as a part of the official soundtrack for the 2017 German movie ''{{ill|Windstorm 3: Windstorm and the Wild Horses|de|Ostwind – Aufbruch nach Ora}}''; in particular this single was used as a background music for the last scenes of the film and for the end credits.
==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="AllMusic">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/young-as-the-morning-old-as-the-sea-mw0002955911|title=Young as the Morning Old as the Sea - Passenger|author=Collar, Matt|work=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=24 September 2016}}</ref>
| rev2      = [[London Evening Standard]]
| rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="EveningStandard">{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/music/passenger-young-as-the-morning-old-as-the-sea-review-rosenberg-s-voice-is-meek-throughout-a3352571.html|title=Passenger - Young as the Morning Old as the Sea review: 'Rosenberg's voice is meek throughout'|date=23 September 2016|publisher=[[London Evening Standard]]|access-date=24 September 2016}}</ref>
| rev3      = Pop Magazine
| rev3score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="PopMagazine">{{cite web|last=Gilman|first=Sam|title=Review: Passenger – Young As The Morning Old As The Sea|url=http://pop-mag.com/2016-09-27/review-passenger-young-as-the-morning-old-as-the-sea/|date=September 27, 2016|access-date=1 August 2019}}</ref>
| rev4      = [[The Guardian]]
| rev4score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="TheGuardian">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/22/passenger-young-as-the-morning-old-as-the-sea-review|title=Passenger: Young As the Morning, Old As the Sea review – formulaic folk jaunts|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=22 September 2016|access-date=24 September 2016}}</ref>
| rev5      = [[The Irish Times]]
| rev5score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="IrishTimes">{{cite web|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/passenger-young-as-the-morning-old-as-the-sea-album-review-mind-numbingly-ordinary-1.2801670|title=Passenger - Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea album review: mind-numbingly ordinary|publisher=[[The Irish Times]]|access-date=24 September 2016}}</ref>
}}
''Young as the Morning Old as the Sea'' has received generally mixed to negative reviews from critics. Reviewing for AllMusic, Matt Collar commented, "Ultimately, with Young as the Morning Old as the Sea, Passenger has crafted an album that, not unlike the oceans, fields, roads, and relationships that inspired it, remains with you, calling you to return."<ref name="AllMusic"/> David Smyth of the ''[[London Evening Standard]]'' wrote, "As Passenger, the solo artist achieved a slow-burning worldwide hit with his pretty break-up song Let Her Go, and has followed it with similarly tasteful fare. Here his piano duet with Birdy, Beautiful Birds, and the gentle guitar ballad The Long Road, are pleasant but forgettable. Rosenberg’s voice is meek throughout, even when he has a powerful band to sing over on Home. The Paul Simon-style jangle of Anywhere and lively horns of If You Go provide the most entertaining backdrops for songs that too often stray towards blandness."<ref name="EveningStandard"/>
Reviewing for ''[[The Guardian]]'', Chris Owen said, "It’s a struggle to believe, while wading through his seventh studio album, that Passenger was responsible for Let Her Go, the song most of Britain spent six months humming in 2012. There isn’t a single singalong number trying to set up camp in your temporal lobe on Young As the Morning Old As the Sea – it seems that in his hurry to vacate the trodden ground of campfire pop, Michael Rosenberg hasn’t really planned where to go. Most of the songs here are almost identical, and the ones that manage to stand out are perfectly fine jaunts into well-cultivated sonic territories. The collaboration with Birdy is nice enough, as are the old fashioned trad-folk sounds of Everything – and that’s the thing: it’s all nice. All this from the man who used to run rings around your brain."<ref name="TheGuardian"/> Lauren Murphy of ''[[The Irish Times]]'' wrote, "His “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach means that songs such as Everything and Fool’s Gold lumber pleasantly but forgettably along, while the addition of Birdy on vapid duet Beautiful Birds makes scant difference. Anywhere and If You Go are perkier affairs, but there is little in the way of “edgy” here, along with some criminally bad lyrical rhymes. Rosenberg remains a Passenger in all senses, allowing others to call the tune while he travels in their mind-numbingly ordinary wake."<ref name="IrishTimes"/>
===Accolades===
{|class="wikitable"
! Year
! Organization
! Accolade
! Artist/work
! Ranking
! Source
|-
| 2016
| ''Pop Magazine''
| Best Albums of 2016
| ''Young as the Morning Old as the Sea''
| 12
| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://pop-mag.com/best-albums-of-2016/|title=Best Albums of 2016|work=Pop Magazine|access-date=September 7, 2020}}</ref>
|-
|}
==Track listing==
All tracks were written by Mike Rosenberg.
{{Track listing
| headline = Standard version
| title1  = Everything
| length1 = 3:34
| title2  = If You Go
| length2 = 3:44
| title3  = When We Were Young
| length3 = 4:40
| title4  = [[Anywhere (Passenger song)|Anywhere]]
| length4 = 3:36
| title5  = [[Somebody's Love]]
| length5 = 5:23
| title6  = Young as the Morning Old as the Sea
| length6 = 3:26
| title7  = Beautiful Birds
| note7   = featuring [[Birdy (singer)|Birdy]]
| length7 = 3:33
| title8  = The Long Road
| length8 = 3:52
| title9  = Fool's Gold
| length9 = 4:15
| title10  = Home
| length10 = 5:48
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Deluxe edition
| title11  = Young as the Morning Old as the Sea
| note11   = acoustic
| length11 = 2:36
| title12  = Fool's Gold
| note12   = acoustic
| length12 = 3:23
| title13  = Beautiful Birds
| note13   = acoustic
| length13 = 2:53
| title14  = Everything
| note14   = acoustic
| length14 = 3:18
| title15  = The Long Road
| note15   = acoustic
| length15 = 3:08
| title16  = When We Were Young
| note16   = acoustic
| length16 = 3:37
}}
==Charts==
{{col-begin}}
{{col-2}}
===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (2016–17)
! scope="col"| Peak<br /> position
|-
{{album chart|Australia|1|artist=Passenger|album=Young as the Morning Old as the Sea|rowheader=true|access-date=1 October 2016}}
|-
{{album chart|Austria|8|artist=Passenger|album=Young as the Morning Old as the Sea|rowheader=true|access-date=6 October 2016}}
|-
{{album chart|Flanders|7|artist=Passenger|album=Young as the Morning Old as the Sea|rowheader=true|access-date=30 September 2016}}
|-
{{album chart|Wallonia|22|artist=Passenger|album=Young as the Morning Old as the Sea|rowheader=true|access-date=30 September 2016}}
|-
{{album chart|BillboardCanada|8|artist=Passenger|rowheader=true|access-date=4 October 2016}}
|-
{{album chart|Netherlands|7|artist=Passenger|album=Young as the Morning Old as the Sea|rowheader=true|access-date=3 October 2016}}
|-
! scope="row"| French Albums ([[Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique|SNEP]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.snepmusique.com/tops-semaine/top-albums-fusionnes/?ye=2016&we=39|title=Le Top de la semaine : Top Albums Fusionnes - SNEP (Week 39, 2016)|date=10 June 2013|publisher=[[Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique]]|language=fr|access-date=4 October 2016}}</ref>
| 10
|-
{{album chart|Germany4|6|id=307510|artist=Passenger|album=Young as the Morning Old as the Sea|rowheader=true|access-date=30 September 2016}}
|-
{{album chart|Ireland|5|year=2016|week=39|rowheader=true|access-date=30 September 2016}}
|-
! scope="row"| Italian Albums ([[Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana|FIMI]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fimi.it/classifiche#/category:album/id:2341|title=Album – Classifica settimanale WK 39 (dal 2016-09-23 al 2016-09-29)|publisher=[[Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana]]|language=it|access-date=1 October 2016}}</ref>
| 31
|-
! scope="row"| New Zealand Albums ([[Recorded Music NZ|RMNZ]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aotearoamusiccharts.co.nz/archive/albums/2016-09-30|title=NZ Top 40 Albums Chart|publisher=[[Recorded Music NZ]]|date=3 October 2016|access-date=30 September 2016}}</ref>
| 1
|-
{{album chart|Norway|28|M|url=http://lista.vg.no/artist/passenger/6014|title=VG-lista - Passenger|publisher=[[VG-lista]]|artist=Passenger|album=Young as the Morning Old as the Sea|rowheader=true|access-date=September 30, 2016}}
|-
{{album chart|Scotland|2|date=2016-09-30|rowheader=true|access-date=1 October 2016}}
|-
! scope="row"| Spanish Albums ([[Productores de Música de España|PROMUSICAE]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.promusicae.es/listas/semana/3248-%C3%81lbumes-semana-39-2016|title=TOP 100 ALBUMES — SEMANA 39: del 23.09.2016 al 29.09.2016|publisher=[[Productores de Música de España]]|language=es|access-date=5 October 2016}}</ref>
| 32
|-
{{album chart|Sweden|54|artist=Passenger|album=Young as the Morning Old as the Sea|rowheader=true|access-date=30 September 2016}}
|-
{{album chart|Switzerland|1|artist=Passenger|album=Young as the Morning Old as the Sea|rowheader=true|access-date=3 October 2016}}
|-
{{album chart|UK|1|artist=Passenger|rowheader=true|access-date=1 October 2016}}
|-
{{album chart|Billboard200|70|artist=Passenger|rowheader=true|access-date=4 October 2016}}
|-
{{album chart|BillboardRock|9|artist=Passenger|rowheader=true|access-date=18 September 2020}}
|}
{{col-2}}
===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (2016)
! scope="col"| Position
|-
! scope="row"| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ultratop.be/nl/annual.asp?year=2016&cat=a|title=Jaaroverzichten 2016|publisher=Ultratop|access-date=18 September 2020}}</ref>
| 172
|-
! scope="row"| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hitparade.ch/charts/jahreshitparade/2016|title=Schweizer Jahreshitparade Alben 2016 – hitparade.ch|publisher=Hung Medien|access-date=2 January 2017}}</ref>
| 86
|}
{{col-end}}
==See also==
* [[List of number-one albums of 2016 (Australia)]]
* [[List of number-one albums from the 2010s (New Zealand)]]
* [[List of UK Albums Chart number ones of the 2010s]]
==Release history==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Region
! Release date
! Format
! Label
|-
| [[United Kingdom]]<br />[[United States]]
| 23 September 2016<ref>[https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/young-as-morning-old-as-sea/id1123060144 Young as the Morning Old as the Sea (Deluxe Edition) by Passenger on Apple Music]</ref><ref>[https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/young-as-morning-old-as-sea/id1123052792 Young as the Morning Old as the Sea by Passenger on iTunes]</ref>
| {{hlist|Digital download|CD|Vinyl}}
| {{hlist|[[Nettwerk]]|Black Crow}}
|-
|}
==References==
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{{Passenger}}
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[[Category:2016 albums]]
[[Category:Passenger (singer) albums]]
[[Category:Albums recorded at Roundhead Studios]]