Nurture

***Nurture*** is Porter Robinson's second studio album. In contrast to the dreamy escapism of Worlds, *Nurture* is thematically grounded in reality (such as nature), focusing on organic soundscapes and melodies, while being more lyrically structured.

## Background

> *"I realized I shouldn't write music with the expectation that the productivity or achievement will fix my problems, but instead with the hope that my honest expression will move people the way music moves me. So when I was really struggling to write and it seemed impossible, instead of thinking, 'You're struggling because you're a fraud, you're clearly not cut out for this,' I began to tell myself, 'Yeah, this is what you sacrifice.'"*
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> **- Robinson in his letter to his fans**
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From 2015 to 2017, the years following his debut album, Robinson stated that he struggled to create music that he was proud of due to suffering from bouts of depression. [1]

The album was announced in the 28th of January 2020, made along a 52-second video featuring a montage of images and clips of nature, encrypted with clues hidden in dates, geographic coordinates and links to Google Maps.

## Singles

### "Get Your Wish"

The first single of the album, "Get your Wish," released the day after Porter Robinson announced the album. [2] The song is about his breakthrough which helped him through his difficult times while making the album. It reflects on his views on depression as well as his 'ego death'.

"I realized I shouldn't write music with the expectation that the productivity or achievement will fix my problems, but instead with the hope that my honest expression will move people the way music moves me... 'Get Your Wish' is about that breakthrough, which was one of many that helped me through those years. Music started making me happy again." *- Porter Robinson, talking about "Get Your Wish" to his fans.*

### "Something Comforting"

"Something Comforting" is the album's second single, released on March 10, 2020. After releasing his first album, "Worlds", Robinson developed a series of depressive episodes that lasted for years. During this time, he started his work on "Nurture."

On June 14, 2015, (when "Nurture" started production) Robinson wrote the instrumental hook for the song and liked it, causing him to repeat. However, the lyrics were unwritten for four years, thanks to him writing and making ten more songs.

"I went through a pretty intense creative struggle and depression in the years like 2015, 2016...but it was during that time that I wrote this section of 'Something Comforting'...and that was the very first thing that I knew I was going to keep. And I've probably listened to it, like, ten thousand times, maybe more." *- Robinson on "Something Comforting"*

### "Mirror"

During his time touring for his debut album in 2014, "Worlds", Robinson underwent through a period of struggles and an inconsistency in quality of his work, causing him to spiral into depression for the following two years. In this period, he only released a remix of Nero's "The Thrill", and a collaboration with Madeon called *"Shelter".*

This song explores his major issues about his depressive period, as well as his pride:

"Mirror is a song about the costs of being hard on yourself. We all have these avatars that we give to our critical inner voices ... it’s about recognizing that most of this criticism is self-inflicted. For years, I was imagining the worst thing a critic might say about my music and looking at my own work as negatively as possible as a way to protect myself from criticism, but it never once served me." *- from the music video for Mirror*

The song was released on August 26, 2020 and it's the third single.