"Marcus Brown's voice is a crooner's voice, a baritone, emanating notes from some spot in his body deeper than his chest. Biologically speaking, this is impossible. But taking in his vocal, its dark timbre and real dimensionality, one feels perplexed and forced to come up with an explanation. Occasionally, Brown, who makes mesmerizing, lovelorn music under the name Nourished by Time, is a serenader reaching for the style of Jodeci or SWV-sinewy, solicitous, but alien underneath the ad-libbing."
"Nourished by Time, who is thirty-one, has just come out with his second full-length album, called "The Passionate Ones," a fitting title for a romantic who is working out, with each output, how he might survive the culture of soul-killing cynicism he was born into. All around him, there is misery and hoarded wealth, work and little love. Not everyone wants to-or can-assimilate spiritually."
Marcus Brown sings as Nourished by Time with a deep baritone that conveys dark timbre, dimensionality, and theatricality. The voice shifts across styles, from serenader R&B to operatic and deadpan crooning, merging playfulness with provocation. The new full-length album, The Passionate Ones, frames romantic longing against a backdrop of socioeconomic misery, hoarded wealth, and limited love. Brown identifies as a leftist and calls himself a songwright, and his work repeatedly connects the sufferings of workers and lovers. Songs such as "Max Potential" use self-improvement gospel and production choices to probe maladjustment and the search for refuge.
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