Album
The Passionate Ones
2025 · Hip Hop, Funk / Soul
4 collectors on Gatefold own this
The Passionate Ones is a Soul & Funk album by Nourished By Time, originally released in 2025. On Gatefold: 5 pressings tracked, owned by 4 collectors.
About
After years spent grinding on the DIY circuit under aliases like Mother Marcus and Riley on Fire, the Baltimore musician (born Marcus Brown) took on the Nourished by Time moniker in 2019. He broke through with 2023’s <i>Erotic Probiotic 2</i>, his first album as Nourished by Time—a swirl of lo-fi synth-pop, post-punk, funk, and R&B that made capitalist critique sound cool. On his second full-length (released on XL Recordings, as was his 2024 <i>Catching Chickens</i> EP), Brown simplifies his sound without sacrificing its freewheeling eccentricities and lyrical nuance. Here, songs about love reveal themselves as songs about surviving and finding meaning in an alienated, oppressive modern world. “Know he’s got a purpose/But he’s always working/Tryna beat the system/Manifest a vision,” he sings on “9 2 5,” which transmutes day-job drudgery into piano-house euphoria. Here and there, shimmers of beauty and absurdity shine through the cracks, like a story of a half-baked psychic reading on “Idiot in the Park.”
via Apple Music
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Automatic Love
- A2Idiot In The Park
- A3Max Potential
- A4It's Time
- A5Cult Interlude
- A69 2 5
Side B
- B1Crazy People
- B2Jojo
- B3Baby Baby
- B4Tossed Away
- B5When The War Is Over
- B6The Passionate Ones
Sound DNA
- Soul & Funk
- Alternative R&B
- velvety
- nostalgic
- nocturnal
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Nourished by timeWRITTEN-BY, PERFORMER
- Tony BontanaFEATURING, VOCALS
4 collectors on Gatefold own this · 5 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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