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