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• Nourished By Times The Passionate Ones is a striking sophomore album from Baltimores Marcus Brown that deepens his blend of post-R&B, indie pop, and socially aware lyricism. Across twelve tracks, the record weaves together themes of love, labor, longing, and resistanceset against textures of flickering synths, Baltimore club rhythms, brooding guitars, and dreamy electro-funk. Browns vocals are both tender and urgent, grounded in raw feeling, while songs like 9 2 5, Baby Baby, Max Potential, and Jojo bring into focus the push and pull between hope and despair; between the demands of day-to-day survival and the yearning for something more. Produced between Baltimore, New York, and London, its an album that feels both deeply personal and expansive in vision.

  Critically, The Passionate Ones has been celebrated for its emotional clarity and ambition. Many reviewers note how Brown has sharpened his voicenot just in performance, but in the way he addresses broader issues of economic precarity, identity, and love without losing sight of intimacy and groove. The albums arrangements are more daring, the moments of lyrical truth more piercing, and even its textured soundscapes feel like invitationsto feel, to reflect, to resist.

  Reviews

  If Im gonna go insane / At least Im loved by you / If my heart should burst or break / It was overdue. Pitchfork

  Theres something here for fans of artists all across the board, from Tyler, The Creator to Magdalena Bay to d4vd and many more. NME

  The Passionate Ones sets up shop comfortably on the border between R&B and lo-fi indie pop. Slant Magazine

  Absorbing and cinematic, The Passionate Ones expands Browns unique vision for post-R&B: his aching, tremulous, earthy vocals swim under rolling Baltimore club breakbeats, flickering synths, gated reverb and uncanny looping samples. The Guardian

  A work of emotional clarity and quiet resolve, The Passionate Ones is a timely reminder that tenderness can be its own form of resistance. The Skinny

• Artist: Nourished By Time Label: XL Recordings Format: LP Units: 1 Country: Worldwide Genre: Pop & Rock

• A1 Automatic Love
  A2 Idiot In The Park
  A3 Max Potential
  A4 It’S Time
  A5 Cult Interlude
  A6 9 2 5
  B7 Crazy People
  B8 Jojo
  B9 Baby Baby
  B10 Tossed Away
  B11 When The War Is Over
  B12 The Passionate Ones