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
Maroon 5
Love Is Like
The band continues its unchallenged legacy as the kings of normie rock. The swagger is unconvincing; the odes to reconciliation tepid; even LISA and Lil Wayne can’t rescue these songs from banality
Pitchfork
Water From Your Eyes
It’s A Beautiful Place
It’s essential and current, ending the lyrics for the album on a plea for the future that is not dystopian
Clash
Wolf Alice
The Clearing
It’s a testimony to Wolf Alice, then, that such broad, ambitious, and overtly pop material as ‘The Clearing’ can remain tethered to their roots
Clash
Mac DeMarco
Guitar
‘Guitar’ is easily one of Mac DeMarco’s most humane, and emotive records
Clash
Maroon 5
Love Is Like
Flimsy and unfulfilling, ‘Love Is Like’ stumbles to a halt with the crooning ‘My Love’ and insubstantial ‘California’. Sometimes waiting doesn’t make the heart grow fonder
Clash
Marissa Nadler
New Radiations
Marissa Nadler’s tenth studio album, New Radiations, is her most raw, stripped-down, and intimate to date. It’s also one of her best
PopMatters