Nourri par le temps - Les passionnés

“The Passionate Ones” is Nourished by Time's first full-length album for XL Recordings, twelve tracks where Marcus Brown transforms working-class exhaustion into something that makes you want to move.

Brown built his reputation composing alone in a Baltimore basement, and his DIY instincts didn't disappear just because the label changed. He wrote, produced and performed all the tracks himself, putting it all together between London, New York and Baltimore, a city whose refusal to choose one genre, from jazz to punk to hip-hop to R&B, is fundamentally its aesthetic legacy. Scheduled for release in 2025, the album refines the lo-fi fog of his previous works into something greater without erasing what made it craft.

“9 2 5” is the record's thesis and its best joke, a song about paid work built on a groove far too catchy for its subject. “Automatic Love” opens the album with some of the brightest synths, “Crazy People” is carried by a bass line that constantly threatens to collapse without ever doing so, and “When the War Is Over” slows the tempo down for authentic tenderness before the title track comes full circle.

Brown spent years being labeled a one-man band. This is the record where it stops feeling like a limitation.