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M<\/span>arcus Brown is a diehard romantic. His second album as Nourished By Time might be darker and more dystopian than his critically acclaimed debut, but at its core remains a bloody, beating heart. Absorbing and cinematic, The Passionate Ones expands Brown\u2019s unique vision for post-R&B: his aching, tremulous, earthy vocals swim under rolling Baltimore club breakbeats, flickering synths, gated reverb and uncanny looping samples. And all the while, he makes a plea for big feelings in the face of a numbing world.<\/p>\n <\/span>Nourished By Time: The Passionate Ones<\/span><\/p>\n Blaring as if from a busted speaker, opening track Automatic Love transforms boyband-y platitudes \u2013 \u201cmy body won\u2019t feel nothing until my skin touches you\u201d \u2013 into lyrics with real jeopardy, sharpened by the threat of looming societal collapse. Max Potential, a big 80s synth-rock number, co-opts corporate language to marvel at the pain of heartbreak, treating it as a fluorescent sign of life. Often Brown sings with such wide-mouthed, full-hearted commitment that he could be laughing or crying, but single Baby Baby is witty and aloof, with casual talk-singing and a surfy guitar line as he calls for a global strike to \u201cmake the gravy train stop\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n A tongue-in-cheek interlude wonders aloud if The Passionate Ones could be a cult \u2013 one dedicated to intensity, drive, even optimism, over any ideology. To hook you in, it\u2019s followed by 9 2 5, a spirit-soaring song of the summer contender about artistic dreams v greasy day job monotony. Real passion is precious, Brown urges, shaking you by the shoulders, hoping you\u2019ll see the light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marcus Brown is a diehard romantic. His second album as Nourished By Time might be darker and more dystopian than his critically acclaimed debut, but at its core remains a bloody, beating heart. Absorbing and cinematic, The Passionate Ones expands Brown\u2019s unique vision for post-R&B: his aching, tremulous, earthy vocals swim under rolling Baltimore club<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[2050,10660,10658,10659,1141,10661,1085,1034,286],"class_list":{"0":"post-17623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-committed","9":"tag-fullhearted","10":"tag-nourished","11":"tag-passionate","12":"tag-pop","13":"tag-postrb","14":"tag-review","15":"tag-rock","16":"tag-time"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}