NOURISHED BY TIME
PASSIONATE ONES (INDIE EXCLUSIVE CLEAR) - LP
UPC: 191404155103
Label: XL RECORDINGS
Format: LP
Release Date: August 22, 2025
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This is The Passionate Ones. It’s not an album. It’s a sermon. A twelve-track exorcism howled from the underbelly of late-stage capitalism, written, produced, and conjured entirely by Marcus Brown. This ain’t soul revival. This is soul revenge.
Crafted between London, New York City, and Baltimore—each city leaving fingerprints on the sound—The Passionate Ones channels Marcus’s global process with local truth. Born and raised in Baltimore, Brown’s work is profoundly shaped by the city’s rich and eclectic musical heritage, where jazz, punk, indie, hip hop, and R&B collide in raw, genre-fluid harmony. You can hear it in the tension and release, the way the tracks slip between worlds and histories.
The Passionate Ones is a scream at the billboard promise of success: It was never the car that was the lie—it was the idea that you’d ever get to drive it. And Marcus Brown knows it. He’s not whispering revolution. He’s crying through a busted speaker with blood on the woofer.
Each track hits like a confession soaked in gasoline. One of the standout moments comes on the eighth track “Jojo,” featuring a vocal appearance by UK producer and vocalist Tony Bontana. His presence is haunting, grounding the song in a quiet power that amplifies the album’s spiritual undercurrent without softening its fire.
This isn’t just heartbreak. This is class solidarity sung through a cracked molar. Brown’s voice burns as it soothes. Like that good medicine. And through the smoke, we see ourselves: overworked, underpaid, and refusing to go numb. This record isn’t background noise. It’s a boot to the teeth of resignation. It’s love without capitalism. Faith without churches. Labor without applause. It’s a blueprint for building your own altar in the ruins of the American Dream.
PRESS
“Arthur Russell meets Daft Punk but deep RnB, the only new music I absolutely swear is next level” Oneohtrix Point Never (New Yorker)
“Baltimore’s Marcus Brown manages to stir a totally original stew of sounds” The Guardian
“A DIY pop star who turns every limitation into an asset.” Pitchfork
“He’s giving us a view into a brilliant mind, his self-taught talents and the strangely captivating thoughts that roam through his brain. It’s a place worth spending some time.” Resident Advisor
“Nourished By Time can touch feelings that cannot be put into words” Yaeji
TRACK LIST:
1 Automatic Love
2 Idiot in the Park
3 Max Potential
4 It's Time
5 Cult Interlude
6 9 2 5
7 Crazy People
8 Jojo (Feat. Tony Bontana)
9 Baby Baby
10 Tossed Away
11 When the War Is Over
12 The Passionate Ones
