Bleep

Marcus Brown’s debut album as Nourished by Time dropped to immediate applause in 2023. With physical copies racking up demand ever since, XL Recordings offer a very necessary reissue. Brown’s respect for the classics shines through as he twists tried and true sounds with his distinctly modern and idiosyncratic flourishes on Erotic Probiotic 2. Tracks move in unexpected directions as punkish rap, smooth jazz, electro disco beats, panting vocal harmonies, and bouncing house pianos all fold into perfect pop melanges: the woozy and hypnagogic ‘Quantum Suicide’, the optimistic and life affirming nihilism of ‘Shed That Fear’, the lush imagistic terraforming of ‘Rain Water Promise’.