XL Recordings

The Passionate Ones is the second album by Nourished By Time, and his first released through XL Recordings, following his 2024 EP Catching Chickens. Crafted between Baltimore, London, and NYC, The Passionate Ones is a sermon, a twelve-track catharsis, howled from the underbelly of late-stage capitalism, a blueprint for building your own altar in the ruins of the American Dream. The album showcases Marcus Brown’s singular sound, shaped by his hometown of Baltimore’s rich and eclectic musical heritage where jazz, punk, indie, hip hop, electronic and R&B collide in raw harmony. On The Passionate Ones, Brown tackles love, labor, existentialism, dreams, disillusionment, and hope through the lens of metamodernism, documenting an American story of an artist exploring creativity to keep himself afloat while he follows his dreams.