After releasing one of the best songs of 2024 with "Hell of a Ride" from his Catching Chickens EP, Baltimore, MD's Marcus Brown has announced his second studio album as Nourished by Time, previewed today by new single "Max Potential."
The Passionate Ones drops August 22 through XL Recordings. It's the follow-up to Brown's 2023 debut, Erotic Probiotic 2, which also featured one of the best songs of that year with "Daddy." The new LP was crafted between Baltimore, London and New York City, and is described by press notes as "a sermon, a 12-track catharsis, howled from the underbelly of late-stage capitalism, a blueprint for building your own altar in the ruins of the American Dream."
Lead single "Max Potential" — a searing mid-tempo jam bolstered by Beach House-esque guitar line and the aloof gravitas of Brown's delivery — arrives alongside a self-directed music video, which you can check out below. There, you'll also find the full tracklist details.
The Passionate Ones:
1. Automatic Love
2. Idiot in the Park
3. Max Potential
4. It's Time
5. Cult Interlude
6. 9 2 5
7. Crazy People
8. Jojo (feat. Tony Bontana)
9. BABY BABY
10. Tossed Away
11. When the War Is Over
12. The Passionate Ones