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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

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