There is a way of being in the world that only the passionate ones know – we make it ours by the force of love instead of control. Markus Brown’s tailored poetry makes you wake up ready to change the world and your life, give up your job and follow your dreams.
They call it high standards so they have a way to convince you you’re too much. A dream is never too high. A dream is indestructible. “The Passioned Ones” is a praise to love above the modern capitalist illusion of structure and order, good feelings and doing your do over a should do and a trapped soul.
All these song titles have a simplistic way to frame a mundane yet great feeling of simply existing – as a loving individual who needs to make it through a 9 to 5 and not forget magic along the way. In a soup of R&B, hip hop, indie, electronic and so forth, what stands out for me in Brown’s work is a persisted authenticity and an eroticism with words in such ordinary existentialism – feeling like an “Idiot In The Park” infatuated with another one, exchanging moments of impermanency, where else could I be? Followed by such hyping tune “Max Potential”, life is full when there is passion and the the insanity of believing in oneself – “we don’t have to be so average” is one that stays with me in the next song “It’s time”.
It’s difficult not to go through every song in this album for the way they so intelligently are stitched together and tell us a story, leading us a way into both our inner most raw and fertile desires and an outward and expansive vision into community, resisting the traps of capitalist survival.
Definitely an album to listen to beginning to end in one go. “The Passionate Ones” is a pill to restore the body-memory of what life is actually about in the end of the day: love, love and only love.
