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Hand Habits  Blue Reminder

While the record is far from a concept album, its cohesion plays out like the emotions you might experience through any given day Far Out

Hand Habits  Blue Reminder

A set of songs about romantic love, self-love and self-actualisation whose confident arrangements sacrifice none of the intimacy of Duffy's earlier work. Print edition only Uncut

Hand Habits  Blue Reminder

Altogether, a bold and beautiful record. Print edition only Mojo

Hand Habits  Blue Reminder

Conditioned by the awestruck pleasure of falling in love, and showcasing Meg Duffy’s effortlessly acrobatic guitar playing, their latest LP is their most confident, adventurous album yet Pitchfork

Hand Habits  Blue Reminder

Duffy has sculpted an album that vibrates with courage, tenderness, and a sheer insistence to feel The Line Of Best Fit

Hand Habits  Blue Reminder

Meg Duffy’s fifth solo LP finds clarity in looseness, weaving cinematic arrangements and guitar-driven worlds drawn from duality, refusing to separate pain from love Paste Magazine

Nourished By Time  The Passionate Ones

Marcus Brown yearns for lasting love and satisfaction – and puts faith in his future NME

Nourished By Time  The Passionate Ones

Shows significant growth from 2023's more dream-poppy debut Erotic Probiotic 2. One senses this twisted R&B Baby Bird has even more in the locker. Print edition only Mojo

Nourished By Time  The Passionate Ones

An experimental R'n'B album in which desire and disillusionment share the same groove The Skinny

Nourished By Time  The Passionate Ones

The album sounds rich, even if the people Brown sings about (and for) are not. The songs themselves are brain-swirls of half-remembered fragments, dreams, bits of song, ephemera that repeats in your mind against the everyday wash of thought. You’re captured in its sticky, squelchy synth web from start to finish The Quietus

Nourished By Time  The Passionate Ones

Marcus Brown’s second album makes a plea for big feelings in earthy vocals, rolling breakbeats and a contender for song of the summer The Guardian

Nourished By Time  The Passionate Ones

The result is a testament to what can be achieved by committing yourself to your dreams and desires, and it should see Nourished By Time handsomely rewarded with growing notoriety and admiration Beats Per Minute

Nourished By Time  The Passionate Ones

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

Nourished By Time  The Passionate Ones

Brown is no longer trapped working feeling unappreciated. Now, he’s inviting people into his unwavering, vital psyche. If you're listening and agreeing with Brown, you’re already one of the passionate ones The Line Of Best Fit

Nourished By Time  The Passionate Ones

Each movement is staggeringly inventive in its own right, even as it’s whizzing by you. His interrogations of art, relationships, and late-stage capitalism make it his most considered, elaborate expression yet Paste Magazine