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is the debut album by
American singer and record producer Marcus Brown under the alias Nourished by Time, released on April 21, 2023, through Scenic Route Records. It received acclaim from critics, being ranked on several lists of the best albums of 2023.
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ranked it the best album of 2023, calling it "a refreshing, genre-defying outlier" that "sounds like no one but
Nourished by Time, as Brown conjures a magical, one-of-a-kind modern synthesis of '90s R&B, '80s freestyle,
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ranked it the 17th best album of 2023, writing that its "blend of '90s R&B and '80s freestyle is so impressive because it appears to have arrived fully formed. For such a bare-bones operation, its fruits overwhelm".
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Stephen Kearse describing it as playing like "a sampler of a time-warped '80s that took place entirely in Brown's head" as well as "
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Amin, Tayyab; Beaumont-Thomas, Ben; Petridis, Alexis; Ahmed, Aneesa; Phillips, Stephanie; Cragg, Michael; Snapes, Laura; Simpson, Dave; Mistlin, Sasha (December 25, 2023).
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and subjugation hit hard but never weigh heavy, couched in fuzzily buoyant, earwormy choruses that are almost as affirming as classic
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that transcends any and all of his myriad influences".
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