I was playing video games when listening this album and blossom came on and I had to stop playing. No song has ever hit me like that in my life and that hit me like a truck and I could not stop crying. It's such a beautiful song and I was not expecting that at all going into this album
I felt that too, I was happily listening along, doin my own thing and giving like 75% of my attention to the music, and then when Blossom came on I immediately stopped and turned 100% attention to it.. It gradually worked tears out of me until I was full on crying at the end, and the second listen through with the lyrics pulled up hit me even harder. Such a stunningly beautiful piece.
@@Aidan-Shea it's definitely one of my favorite porter robinson songs ever and I showed my girlfriend and she too said she hysterically cried listening to it. He really hit us with the feels out of nowhere
Dude I’d just gotten back from a run and played the album from where I’d stopped last and it was Blossom... dude i just sat there. Such a fucking beautiful song
@@geographygal2178 yeah the ones that come to mind are the three i mentioned but they arent astronomically better than the others or anything. you could list them in any order and i would probably agree mostly. i love porters music man
@@funl they weren't in an order. Also this is my favourite album ever and my 2nd favourite is the tristam album that just released so I'm friggin amazed. The only song I dont like in this album is blossom I just find it boring its emotional yeah but I just don't like it
My faves are the intro (ghibli esque), mother, sweet time, blossom, do-re-mi (very snails house like), dullscythe...I could go on and on...this album was so well done....i gotta listen to it again in nature while mediating.
Something about Dullscythe just gets me, it's like it's trying so hard to bring itself together to make something and it's soo unique and interesting to me.
the way i saw it was the way the song was trying to work properly, like a farmer with a dull scythe. everybody’s trying to do what they believe they’re meant for and sometimes don’t completely get it right
that's exactly the sentiment I felt while listening to it the first time, I was just thinking "this song sounds like it's trying so hard to be a song" and it eventually found its way towards the end. Like our guy here said, probably not something to throw in with a normal playlist, but definitely interesting, especially with context.
me too, Porter literally just shares his journey/feelings through nurture. while listening nurture, I don't know why Dullscythe is only the song that makes me tears so badly.
Worlds built amazing atmospheres and moods of different places, Nurture hits as close to home as possible with personal struggles and internal thoughts. And boy, do they hit hard. Also, nice By Design pfp :)
@@david_potvin15 words can never explain and I listen to music constantly ... But when I heard this it honestly hit a switch and I just cried but it was happy and seriously needed the reminder of how truely amazing it is to be alive during this time and be able to hear all this beautiful art being created .
I love that not every song was upbeat like his singles were. Songs like Wind Tempos, dullscythe, and do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do really give some room to breathe in between the more upbeat songs. Listening to all the songs in a row helps a lot to see the bigger picture.
I can understand the underwhelming emotion, Cause I was too underwhelmed!! But, the more I gave it a chance, it just gets better!! Part of me hopes that he had released like two singles, Now we already heard the songs and The other new tracks feel like ambient interludes. But, relistens proved Me that they are more than just interludes.
Yea my biggest problem with it is that he sort of released all of the biggest and best sounding songs (in my opinion) before the album dropped. Most of the rest of the songs were more like interludes in my opinion. But the overall sound is great and now that I know what to expect I think I’ll be able to enjoy it more and grow with it. It was just a lot of hype for this thing
Now that I think about it, upon first listen or rather several, as it took me until I actually listened to all of worlds all in one go, for me to really wholeheartedly love all the songs over time on that album, when I was first starting to listen to it all those years ago, same thing with nurture I think :)) :D
@@humansnotbots-y8l THIS, I totally get it that it feels like they put all his best songs out, music videos and all and then the rest of the album became more interludy. But it seems that the big song that was locked away until release was Mother. All his tracks are amazing, it’s just the way it was delivered and the eventual release made it feel a bit underwhelming. It’s like eating your dessert and your big steak first, then being handed the gourmet salad and bread. Either way I love the genuine soul Porter put into this album.
@@jiornojiovanna5722 exactly bro. Like imagine if we had 1 or 2 singles then heard unfold and mirror etc for the first time on the album! That would’ve been great. But even so now that all the hype has died down I’ve been enjoying the album a lot better
the 'drop' on unfold is definitely my favourite climax of any song on this album, with look at the sky's second drop a close second. i just love how it feels like he didn't use a DAW to make these, like its plucked from nature itself! I do agree with the underwhelmed statement, I feel like the core of the album is the singles (with unfold being the last single), with all the other tracks just being ambient, they feel like a waiting room for the singles. I still love the entire soundscapes though.
Dullscythe Extremely beautiful song. Most people think that this song is trash. However, they don't understand the details in this song. This is so beautiful. It tells a story, but you can figure it out only if you can relate. ❤️
Porter really changed my life ever since I discovered him, and since the album was announced, I've been really excited for it to be released, and now here I am nearly crying at almost every song. He really has earned my title of "Best artist ever". Now I can't wait to see this live!!!
I adore how he has a genuine reaction to each song, and explains in detail how each song resonated with him straight after each song finishes. You can tell he isn't just doing this for views, he wants to share his love of this album with us. Keep it up :)
on first listen and even second listen, ‘mother’ hit me like a train. i thought about how much my mother gave me throughout her life. “now there’s an empty room you outgrew” made me think about the room i currently reside in. walking around my neighborhood and my old school (which i only graduated from last year) felt very nostalgic. i produced some of the best memories of my life here despite disliking school. on the walk, i saw the walls of my neighborhood and my friends’ neighborhood. i know one day i’m not going to see this place for a long time and i’m scared of growing up. moving far away is my dream, yet i’m scared of that dream. then, i listen to ‘musician’, a song about growing up, getting a job, looking forward and just running with it. i just get a sense of thrill and inspiration. it rushes through me like a drug and i don’t feel scared of the future anymore. porter has made a successful career out of touching hearts across the world. whether or not you take the lyrics at face value or look deeper into them, his music stands out. i found his music at the perfect time. graduation and quarantine were in the same year. i simultaneously had to grow up and watch the world change around me, so it felt weird. his music helped a lot. whoever’s read this through all the way, i want you to know i love you :) thank you for staying for my little monologue
I’ve read it all. YOU GOT THIS ✊🏽. I’m almost done with my first year of college at home and I’m lowkey also afraid of growing up. Like getting a job, working. But we can get through this 💚
Love the vulnerability here. You are gonna kill it in life though! Yea you’ll probably hit some roadblocks and setbacks, but as Porter put it best “But I won't spend time resenting the way things”. Slightly different context but I think it works ;)
@@BowtiedMedia thanks man :)) it works in many people’s context so thank u for putting it here. being nostalgic can be simultaneously the most self-deprecating thing and the most wonderful thing. but resenting the way things were is never good unless it’s learning from your mistakes and growing to be a better person
As someone who didn't really have parents around, I had to grow up pretty early on... I envy some of the emotion conveyed in Mother, and there are others that I don't understand
I 100%... Feel the opposite as you. I felt underwhelmed by the singles, since I was so used to Worlds & Virtual Self. It wasn't until I heard the Nurture front-to-end that I finally understood the project, and it very quickly became my absolute favorite album in a long time. Interestingly enough, my introduction to this album wasn't by the drop, it was by watching his set in Secret Sky 2021, 4 days after - which I highly recommend you watch here on TH-cam since he released it for free. Sure, I have my favorite tracks from this album (incidentally the singles, now that I have context), but I can't help & feel like I ought to listen to the entire project when even one song comes on. It's just so... Intertwined. It's also specifically for this reason that I feel you did yourself a disservice by skipping the singles entirely, rather than just listening to them & then editing them out. As for ranking them... I simply couldn't, for all the reasons listed above. Thank you for reacting, I appreciate the time and effort you put in & I had a lot of fun listening along.
Earlier I had lost my job due to a fault of my own, depression tends to make you tardy. I felt so pathetic and ashamed in myself that I couldn't do one simple thing, and that's all I saw of myself were these negatives. Eventually when I came across Mirror, it felt like it was speaking directly to me. I felt like Porter was telling me to stop being so hard on myself and putting myself down. "I know what you want from me." I really felt that line... Because I know what I wanted from my "mirror" - to see the worth and value in myself. After that song I committed to writing again, and am close to outlining all my chapters. Mirror helped me out when I was at my lowest and offered a hand to pull me back up to do what I love. It's tough doing work and writing on the side but it makes me happy and that's how I can feel whole. Porter is everything to me dude.
Me too! It was the first time I thought "yknow I should just listen to it as a complete album", which quickly became "try not to cry on public transport please"
@@humansnotbots-y8l having no visual "distraction" and only listening is also a great way to listen for the first time I'd say. I just liked the idea of looking at the sky when the song played. Or when "blossom" started I just sat down infront of a flower and stared at it for 4min haha. also it was a really beautiful day here in germany. the stars just aligned for it :)
@@boeniman7553 I think it would’ve been better listening to it going on a walk or something. I just couldn’t wait that long lol it dropped at midnight and I was too excited
i struggled to enjoy this on my first listen, but as i and many other comments are saying, the more structured and "full" tracks had already released, which made the rest feel like ambient interludes. those ambient tracks are beautiful and were definitely much more appreciated on my 2nd listen.
Don't say sorry for feeling underwhelmed by an album. People come to hear your opinion and if they don't like it really shouldn't matter due to the fact that it's your opinion and it's what you are feeling. One shouldn't feel sorry for not going with what others think of the album. The first video I have seen and overall, your presentation is really good! Just became a fan of your work. Great job!
I firstly discovered Porter Robinson the same day my grandmother died. My grandmother's death made me feel so bad that I was almost going to kill myself, but magically Worlds saved me. Thanks to Porter now I have an amazing life: good studies, lots of amazing friends and the best girlfriend in the world. As much as I love Worlds for the things it did for me, Nurture is going to be my fav album ever, it just helped me with everything: my goals, my desicions and my feelings in life. To finish this comment I just want to say that I really dont know why I wrote all of this, I just thought it would be nice to give my feelings about Porter Robinson's music, and I also wanted to thank Porter himself for all he did for me without knowing. PD: sorry if something is misspelled, Im from Spain and my english is not perfect.
Mother really encapsulates the feeling of unconditional familial love. Even though the childhood bedroom is gone, and there *is* no place at home left, "Mother" is always there for you. Dullscythe is hard to listen to for the first half. Sweet Time is one of the most heart-rending tracks on the album in my opinion, second only to Blossom. "Since I met you I don't wanna die no more." "I won't spend time resenting the way things are." Porter is the *audience* for this album. Worlds was about escapism, and Nurture is about trying to be normal again after the fallout of success. "And then somebody, somewhere, finds the warmth of summer in the songs you write. Maybe it's a gift that I couldn't recognize [while] trying to feel alive."
I'm not going to lie I have the exact same opinion on Nurture. While I liked the album, it did feel a little underwhelming. . I'm not surprised that you're underwhelmed with Nurture considering it was your first listen with each song. I feel the same but I'm very sure that the album will grow on me a lot after a couple of listens. Here are my ratings for each song: Lifelike - 8/10 Look at the Sky - 10/10 Get Your Wish - 9/10 Wind Tempo - 7/10 Musician - 8/10 de-re-me-fa-so-la-ti-do - 8/10 Mother - 9/10 dull scythe - 7/10 Sweet Time - 9/10 Mirror - 10/10 Something Comforting - 9/10 Blossom - 8/10 Unfold - 8/10 Trying to Feel Alive - 8/10
Spoiler: it grows on you FAST. if ambient or more experimental electronic music just isn’t your thing then certain tracks may not, but the more poppy tracks grew on me real quick. 10/10 album for me, personally. Like 22, A Million by Bon Iver meets Japanese synth pop/EDM.
Something to know is a song that Porter sampled heavy in this album is a song called Kites by Grynpyret. It’s an amazing song that i’ve never seen recognized besides by Porter. You can hear the inspiration that song has on a couple of these tracks.
Loved hearing your thoughtful reactions! I'll agree that the album feels underwhleming compared to Worlds, but I think the two albums occupy such different spaces. I feel that Worlds was something Porter GAVE to us, while Nurture is something he's SHARING with us. Worlds was a bold declaration, while Nurture is an invitation to sit with him for a while and look into his most vulnerable mind. For someone whose claim to fame was "EDM with feeling," it was a natural evolution for this album to be so honest and introspective in a way I've never heard in electronica. It isn't Worlds and we all know it, but there's so much value in what newness and vulnerability it presents. I hope that everyone who feels skeptical about it will be willing to give it more listens and let it grow on them, because it definitely does get better and more beautiful once you let go of your prepackaged expectations, and just let yourself sit with Porter and go on a journey with him.
Unfold. That song speaks to me. Idk why. Makes me cry. When he sings it on the secret sky nurture 2021 set. Goes from unfold to divinity. Jesus. Goosebumps on goosebumps for me. This album is perfect!
@@BowtiedMedia That's great, I'm glad you enjoyed it! (Your positivity in your react earned my subscription as well). By the way, what did your wife think of Sweet Time and Blossom? I'm curious.
So many albums/eps lately. Wavedash- world famous tour. Vicetone- legacy. Tristam- WLUWD. Bad computer- somewhere new. Porter robinson- nurture and then San holo- bb u OK?/album2
Sweet time oh my god what a great tune, this rolling beat combined with that airy voice are so smooooth. Makes me feel so light and filled with hapiness
Here are my thoughts, feel free to reply if you like: I think I like basically every song on here except for Blossom and, to a lesser extent, Wind Tempos. However I found myself underwhelmed as a whole by the album because of its lack of cohesion. IMO Blossom is too goddamn depressing to listen to. It just makes me feel miserable. I understand how deeply personal it is for Porter, but I just can't quite get myself to enjoy it. Wind Tempos is a great song for when you're doing homework. Very chill, kind of like you're just flowing. IDK, this album just feels like it's trying to do everything all at once. Chill, sad, upbeat, and whatever the hell dullscythe's beginning section is (robot sex noises??), all in one album. I think that all of these songs are fantastic in their own right, but as an album I just don't feel like they work that well together. I don't see an obvious overall narrative or theme, it's just literally everywhere. Yeah the songs with lyrics all sort of have this theme of talking about Porter's life and stuff, but then there are just these songs with no lyrics thrown into the mix and I don't know how they fit in, narratively or musically. The upbeat tracks, like those released in 2020 and earlier this year, are fantastic. do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do, Mother, Unfold, Trying to Feel Alive, and even Sweet Time (to some extent) are all faithful to that type of sound in the earlier songs. My problem is the tracks that don't fall within that group. Did I enjoy it overall? Absolutely. Porter is a masterful musician. But I am also quite underwhelmed by the album as a whole. I was expecting a bunch of songs that were as much of a banger as the first few he released. No such luck. I'm not even comparing it to Worlds because that's like comparing apples and oranges -- I'm just comparing Nurture's first part to the full album, and I'm still underwhelmed.
You forgot the secret track of the album! It is called Porter Robinson & WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA - fullmoon lullab. Its exclusive to Japan only, but you can hear it in youtube
For me, the standouts are Get Your Wish, Look At The Sky, Mirror, Something Comforting and Mother. Mother is the underappreciated and hidden gem of this album on my opinion. All of these songs take me back to old school Porter. Listening to world's back on 2014. Nostalgia
I'd love another video after you listen to it all the way through a few times. I'm IN LOVE with it. I've been through it about 16 times so far and then went for individual songs countless times. Just LOVE all around.
The end result of the full album took me off guard. I absolutely LOVED all of the singles and ambient stuff is not really my style. On my first listen through, Unfold was the only song that hooked me in right away. But after a few listens, I fell in love with Sweet Time, Blossom, and to a lesser extent, do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do , Mother, and Trying to Feel Alive. Dullscythe was an interesting experimental track that has kind of fallen flat but I can still appreciate it. I don't like Wind Tempos. It's 4 minutes of ambience and piano, which doesn't hook me in at all and 2 minutes of playing around with processed vocals that I'm not a fan of. I feel like this track could've been left out and nothing would've been lost. I can see why he released the songs he did as singles and I think it kind of sucks that there aren't more songs in the vein of them here because it feels like two ideas (singles, and the more chill ambient tracks) were mashed into one with only some vague themes holding them together. If this had been done as 2 EPs or what Dion Timmer did with a double EP, I think this project would've been stronger. Over all, okay album 7/10
i can totally understand peoples hesitance towards dullscythe, but i think its amazing. it reminds me of fellow feeling from worlds. both of them are very experimental tracks that probably focus a bit more on conveying a message than music. i dont know for sure since im not porter, but thats what im guessing.
If you don’t like more experimental ambient electronic music then yeah, this probably isn’t your album. However, it totally is my thing lmao, I absolutely adore the living fuck out of it but I get the sentiment.
I was playing video games when listening this album and blossom came on and I had to stop playing. No song has ever hit me like that in my life and that hit me like a truck and I could not stop crying. It's such a beautiful song and I was not expecting that at all going into this album
I felt that too, I was happily listening along, doin my own thing and giving like 75% of my attention to the music, and then when Blossom came on I immediately stopped and turned 100% attention to it.. It gradually worked tears out of me until I was full on crying at the end, and the second listen through with the lyrics pulled up hit me even harder. Such a stunningly beautiful piece.
@@Aidan-Shea it's definitely one of my favorite porter robinson songs ever and I showed my girlfriend and she too said she hysterically cried listening to it. He really hit us with the feels out of nowhere
@@Brandonv1103 Absolutely, the song is one of porter's best for sure
Dude I’d just gotten back from a run and played the album from where I’d stopped last and it was Blossom... dude i just sat there. Such a fucking beautiful song
i was tryna eat a salad when blossom came on and then i was just sobbing while still trying to eat the salad
Nurture was the best album I've listened to. Musician, get your wish, look at the sky, unfold and mother are the best easily
Get your wish, musician, and unfold are my favourites by far
@@funl they're some of the best yes I keep editing my list bc I can't decide lmao
@@geographygal2178 yeah the ones that come to mind are the three i mentioned but they arent astronomically better than the others or anything. you could list them in any order and i would probably agree mostly. i love porters music man
@@funl they weren't in an order. Also this is my favourite album ever and my 2nd favourite is the tristam album that just released so I'm friggin amazed. The only song I dont like in this album is blossom I just find it boring its emotional yeah but I just don't like it
My faves are the intro (ghibli esque), mother, sweet time, blossom, do-re-mi (very snails house like), dullscythe...I could go on and on...this album was so well done....i gotta listen to it again in nature while mediating.
Something about Dullscythe just gets me, it's like it's trying so hard to bring itself together to make something and it's soo unique and interesting to me.
It’s definitely unique but it’s just way too odd for me
@@SparkyTheInvincible you would love 100 gecs
the way i saw it was the way the song was trying to work properly, like a farmer with a dull scythe. everybody’s trying to do what they believe they’re meant for and sometimes don’t completely get it right
that's exactly the sentiment I felt while listening to it the first time, I was just thinking "this song sounds like it's trying so hard to be a song" and it eventually found its way towards the end. Like our guy here said, probably not something to throw in with a normal playlist, but definitely interesting, especially with context.
I love that track, one of my favorites
I've never had more than one song make me cry on an album before...
me too, Porter literally just shares his journey/feelings through nurture.
while listening nurture, I don't know why Dullscythe is only the song that makes me tears so badly.
dullscythe really is something imo
Rarely do I relate so deeply with so many songs either
Worlds built amazing atmospheres and moods of different places, Nurture hits as close to home as possible with personal struggles and internal thoughts. And boy, do they hit hard.
Also, nice By Design pfp :)
I suggest Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell Then.
Do-re-me is underrated, and his remix in secret sky was insane
I agree, I haven’t seen any comments about do re me being their top fave 😪. It’s definitely my top fav.
That do-re-mi flip was so unexpected. Had me so off guard that I couldn't resist jamming the night he did it.
@@zeddie4468 its my fav
Unfold blew me away. It's one of my favs from the album.
Literally cried . It's beyond beautiful . 😩
I absolutely LOVE the chorus melody 😩❤️
My favorite is Wind Tempo
I wish I could relive the feeling I had while listening to that song fir the first time
@@david_potvin15 words can never explain and I listen to music constantly ... But when I heard this it honestly hit a switch and I just cried but it was happy and seriously needed the reminder of how truely amazing it is to be alive during this time and be able to hear all this beautiful art being created .
I love that not every song was upbeat like his singles were. Songs like Wind Tempos, dullscythe, and do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do really give some room to breathe in between the more upbeat songs. Listening to all the songs in a row helps a lot to see the bigger picture.
Seriously I agree
Idk about you guys but I literally jam the shit outta dullscythe, that isn't a breathing room track for me lol
@@CastafioreOnTH-cam lol yeah that piano in the first half is wild
I can understand the underwhelming emotion, Cause I was too underwhelmed!! But, the more I gave it a chance, it just gets better!! Part of me hopes that he had released like two singles, Now we already heard the songs and The other new tracks feel like ambient interludes. But, relistens proved Me that they are more than just interludes.
Yea my biggest problem with it is that he sort of released all of the biggest and best sounding songs (in my opinion) before the album dropped. Most of the rest of the songs were more like interludes in my opinion. But the overall sound is great and now that I know what to expect I think I’ll be able to enjoy it more and grow with it. It was just a lot of hype for this thing
Now that I think about it, upon first listen or rather several, as it took me until I actually listened to all of worlds all in one go, for me to really wholeheartedly love all the songs over time on that album, when I was first starting to listen to it all those years ago, same thing with nurture I think :)) :D
@@humansnotbots-y8l THIS, I totally get it that it feels like they put all his best songs out, music videos and all and then the rest of the album became more interludy. But it seems that the big song that was locked away until release was Mother.
All his tracks are amazing, it’s just the way it was delivered and the eventual release made it feel a bit underwhelming. It’s like eating your dessert and your big steak first, then being handed the gourmet salad and bread. Either way I love the genuine soul Porter put into this album.
@@jiornojiovanna5722 exactly bro. Like imagine if we had 1 or 2 singles then heard unfold and mirror etc for the first time on the album! That would’ve been great. But even so now that all the hype has died down I’ve been enjoying the album a lot better
Blossom is the best song on the album, change my mind 😭
facts
Yess I agree
Sweet time, Mother, and Blossom is the best, Change my mind ;-;
Mirror
@@datavalisofficial8730 I might have decided that unfold is my favorite at this point but blossom still holds the most emotional impact
the 'drop' on unfold is definitely my favourite climax of any song on this album, with look at the sky's second drop a close second. i just love how it feels like he didn't use a DAW to make these, like its plucked from nature itself! I do agree with the underwhelmed statement, I feel like the core of the album is the singles (with unfold being the last single), with all the other tracks just being ambient, they feel like a waiting room for the singles. I still love the entire soundscapes though.
Unfold felt like the climax of the entire album, it feels like being in awe and i cannot get enough
Dullscythe
Extremely beautiful song. Most people think that this song is trash. However, they don't understand the details in this song. This is so beautiful. It tells a story, but you can figure it out only if you can relate. ❤️
took me way to long to "get" this song but once you do its great
Porter really changed my life ever since I discovered him, and since the album was announced, I've been really excited for it to be released, and now here I am nearly crying at almost every song. He really has earned my title of "Best artist ever". Now I can't wait to see this live!!!
I adore how he has a genuine reaction to each song, and explains in detail how each song resonated with him straight after each song finishes. You can tell he isn't just doing this for views, he wants to share his love of this album with us. Keep it up :)
Thank you :)
I really appreciate the comment!
on first listen and even second listen, ‘mother’ hit me like a train. i thought about how much my mother gave me throughout her life. “now there’s an empty room you outgrew” made me think about the room i currently reside in. walking around my neighborhood and my old school (which i only graduated from last year) felt very nostalgic. i produced some of the best memories of my life here despite disliking school. on the walk, i saw the walls of my neighborhood and my friends’ neighborhood. i know one day i’m not going to see this place for a long time and i’m scared of growing up. moving far away is my dream, yet i’m scared of that dream. then, i listen to ‘musician’, a song about growing up, getting a job, looking forward and just running with it. i just get a sense of thrill and inspiration. it rushes through me like a drug and i don’t feel scared of the future anymore. porter has made a successful career out of touching hearts across the world. whether or not you take the lyrics at face value or look deeper into them, his music stands out. i found his music at the perfect time. graduation and quarantine were in the same year. i simultaneously had to grow up and watch the world change around me, so it felt weird. his music helped a lot. whoever’s read this through all the way, i want you to know i love you :) thank you for staying for my little monologue
I’ve read it all. YOU GOT THIS ✊🏽. I’m almost done with my first year of college at home and I’m lowkey also afraid of growing up. Like getting a job, working. But we can get through this 💚
@@zeddie4468 hey man :) i truly believe we do. it’s a bit scary in the short term but long term it’ll pay off!
Love the vulnerability here. You are gonna kill it in life though! Yea you’ll probably hit some roadblocks and setbacks, but as Porter put it best “But I won't spend time resenting the way things”. Slightly different context but I think it works ;)
@@BowtiedMedia thanks man :)) it works in many people’s context so thank u for putting it here. being nostalgic can be simultaneously the most self-deprecating thing and the most wonderful thing. but resenting the way things were is never good unless it’s learning from your mistakes and growing to be a better person
As someone who didn't really have parents around, I had to grow up pretty early on... I envy some of the emotion conveyed in Mother, and there are others that I don't understand
I 100%... Feel the opposite as you.
I felt underwhelmed by the singles, since I was so used to Worlds & Virtual Self. It wasn't until I heard the Nurture front-to-end that I finally understood the project, and it very quickly became my absolute favorite album in a long time.
Interestingly enough, my introduction to this album wasn't by the drop, it was by watching his set in Secret Sky 2021, 4 days after - which I highly recommend you watch here on TH-cam since he released it for free. Sure, I have my favorite tracks from this album (incidentally the singles, now that I have context), but I can't help & feel like I ought to listen to the entire project when even one song comes on. It's just so... Intertwined.
It's also specifically for this reason that I feel you did yourself a disservice by skipping the singles entirely, rather than just listening to them & then editing them out. As for ranking them... I simply couldn't, for all the reasons listed above.
Thank you for reacting, I appreciate the time and effort you put in & I had a lot of fun listening along.
Earlier I had lost my job due to a fault of my own, depression tends to make you tardy. I felt so pathetic and ashamed in myself that I couldn't do one simple thing, and that's all I saw of myself were these negatives. Eventually when I came across Mirror, it felt like it was speaking directly to me. I felt like Porter was telling me to stop being so hard on myself and putting myself down.
"I know what you want from me." I really felt that line... Because I know what I wanted from my "mirror" - to see the worth and value in myself.
After that song I committed to writing again, and am close to outlining all my chapters. Mirror helped me out when I was at my lowest and offered a hand to pull me back up to do what I love. It's tough doing work and writing on the side but it makes me happy and that's how I can feel whole. Porter is everything to me dude.
Thanks for the comment. Sorry you aren’t doing too well, but I truly hope the writing continues and continued to help as well! Stay strong my friend!
@@BowtiedMedia appreciate the kind words, good wishes to your works too!
Honestly a perfect album. I started crying on Wind Tempos. 10/10 for every song.
Same here 😭🥺
Blossom though 😭😭
Wind Tempos, Blossom, and Mother are all just 😭😭😭😭
Wind Tempos is one of the most beautiful pieces of art I’ve ever heard in my life, the rest of the album is equally amazing. 10/10 album of the year😭
Me too! It was the first time I thought "yknow I should just listen to it as a complete album", which quickly became "try not to cry on public transport please"
ty for this! although I feel bad for you that you couldn't listen to it for the first time in nature as many of us did :)
I definitely listened to it in a dark room lol maybe I would’ve enjoyed it more that way
@@humansnotbots-y8l having no visual "distraction" and only listening is also a great way to listen for the first time I'd say. I just liked the idea of looking at the sky when the song played. Or when "blossom" started I just sat down infront of a flower and stared at it for 4min haha. also it was a really beautiful day here in germany. the stars just aligned for it :)
@@boeniman7553 I think it would’ve been better listening to it going on a walk or something. I just couldn’t wait that long lol it dropped at midnight and I was too excited
@@humansnotbots-y8l haha yeah it was hard waiting for the sun to rise for me too ;p
i struggled to enjoy this on my first listen, but as i and many other comments are saying, the more structured and "full" tracks had already released, which made the rest feel like ambient interludes. those ambient tracks are beautiful and were definitely much more appreciated on my 2nd listen.
Don't say sorry for feeling underwhelmed by an album. People come to hear your opinion and if they don't like it really shouldn't matter due to the fact that it's your opinion and it's what you are feeling. One shouldn't feel sorry for not going with what others think of the album. The first video I have seen and overall, your presentation is really good! Just became a fan of your work. Great job!
I was underwhelmed too but after listening through multiple times, I can confidently say this is the first album I’ve solidly enjoyed every song
I firstly discovered Porter Robinson the same day my grandmother died. My grandmother's death made me feel so bad that I was almost going to kill myself, but magically Worlds saved me. Thanks to Porter now I have an amazing life: good studies, lots of amazing friends and the best girlfriend in the world.
As much as I love Worlds for the things it did for me, Nurture is going to be my fav album ever, it just helped me with everything: my goals, my desicions and my feelings in life.
To finish this comment I just want to say that I really dont know why I wrote all of this, I just thought it would be nice to give my feelings about Porter Robinson's music, and I also wanted to thank Porter himself for all he did for me without knowing.
PD: sorry if something is misspelled, Im from Spain and my english is not perfect.
Mother really encapsulates the feeling of unconditional familial love. Even though the childhood bedroom is gone, and there *is* no place at home left, "Mother" is always there for you.
Dullscythe is hard to listen to for the first half.
Sweet Time is one of the most heart-rending tracks on the album in my opinion, second only to Blossom. "Since I met you I don't wanna die no more." "I won't spend time resenting the way things are."
Porter is the *audience* for this album. Worlds was about escapism, and Nurture is about trying to be normal again after the fallout of success. "And then somebody, somewhere, finds the warmth of summer in the songs you write. Maybe it's a gift that I couldn't recognize [while] trying to feel alive."
I'm not going to lie I have the exact same opinion on Nurture. While I liked the album, it did feel a little underwhelming. . I'm not surprised that you're underwhelmed with Nurture considering it was your first listen with each song. I feel the same but I'm very sure that the album will grow on me a lot after a couple of listens.
Here are my ratings for each song:
Lifelike - 8/10
Look at the Sky - 10/10
Get Your Wish - 9/10
Wind Tempo - 7/10
Musician - 8/10
de-re-me-fa-so-la-ti-do - 8/10
Mother - 9/10
dull scythe - 7/10
Sweet Time - 9/10
Mirror - 10/10
Something Comforting - 9/10
Blossom - 8/10
Unfold - 8/10
Trying to Feel Alive - 8/10
Yea I’m interested to see where this album lands for me. I still really enjoy it, but I think it was hyped up a little too much for me.
Spoiler: it grows on you FAST. if ambient or more experimental electronic music just isn’t your thing then certain tracks may not, but the more poppy tracks grew on me real quick. 10/10 album for me, personally. Like 22, A Million by Bon Iver meets Japanese synth pop/EDM.
@@Zacharysharkhazard yea it wasn't amazing to me at first, but it already is growing on me
BEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME
You stretching mate 😂
MitiS, Tristam and Porter Robison albums all in consecutive weeks, I feel spoiled
I listen to them all but I never seen any new mitis albums or Tristam
@@thealaskanforever the new tristam album is lit
I listened to all of them the day they came out. I didn't think of it like that lol
All the three are amazing albums. The Mitis album is the least fav of the three.
Something to know is a song that Porter sampled heavy in this album is a song called Kites by Grynpyret. It’s an amazing song that i’ve never seen recognized besides by Porter. You can hear the inspiration that song has on a couple of these tracks.
yeah I got heavy Grynpyret vibes from a lot of tunes on Nurture, I love how Porter pulled from that influence. Grynpyret is so criminally underrated
@@yumster2773 he’s a huge inspiration to Porter and i think Kites was a song that struck something in him to keep going with the album.
Mans playing league during wind tempos wtf
I thought that Nurture was like mana--food for the soul
*it's heeeeeeeere...*
Actually you miss one song call fullMoon lullaby it Japanese only release
Ah, I never actually looked at that version and assumed something had to be different!
Loved hearing your thoughtful reactions! I'll agree that the album feels underwhleming compared to Worlds, but I think the two albums occupy such different spaces. I feel that Worlds was something Porter GAVE to us, while Nurture is something he's SHARING with us. Worlds was a bold declaration, while Nurture is an invitation to sit with him for a while and look into his most vulnerable mind. For someone whose claim to fame was "EDM with feeling," it was a natural evolution for this album to be so honest and introspective in a way I've never heard in electronica.
It isn't Worlds and we all know it, but there's so much value in what newness and vulnerability it presents. I hope that everyone who feels skeptical about it will be willing to give it more listens and let it grow on them, because it definitely does get better and more beautiful once you let go of your prepackaged expectations, and just let yourself sit with Porter and go on a journey with him.
so true, its amazing if you just go with the flow and trust the process he's doing because its so deep
blossom is my favourite it hit me in the feels😭😭🥺🥺🥺
Wind Tempos, Dullscythe and Lifelike make me tears ngl.
ToT
I know it’s in the name but I really appreciate your bowtie in this one
Sweet Time is easily my favorite song on the album, it just mixes calmness and bops all in one and AAA its just soooo good
So glad I found your channel. You’ve got incredible taste in music. I hope to discover some stuff I’ve never heard before.
Thank you! Really appreciate the comment!
When he said dullscythe had no tempo in the first half i understood why my brain had so much trouble comprehending it haha
This is literally the best album I have ever listened too.
Unfold. That song speaks to me. Idk why. Makes me cry. When he sings it on the secret sky nurture 2021 set. Goes from unfold to divinity. Jesus. Goosebumps on goosebumps for me. This album is perfect!
I love the IDM influence on this album!!
Whats IDM my only guess is indie dance music
@@geographygal2178 industrial dance music. Not a lot on this record, but it’s there.
@@geographygal2178 Nope. IDM is Intelligent Dance Music
@@Zacharysharkhazard nope. IDM is Intelligent Dance Music
@@geographygal2178 Intelegent dance music, it’s usually quite experimental and filled with odd rhythms and tight, blippy drum lines
Did you catch Secret Sky? I fully enjoyed it, and Porter's set was incredible.
I loved it! I was passively listening to most of it, but watched Porter’s part fully!
@@BowtiedMedia That's great, I'm glad you enjoyed it! (Your positivity in your react earned my subscription as well).
By the way, what did your wife think of Sweet Time and Blossom? I'm curious.
So many albums/eps lately. Wavedash- world famous tour. Vicetone- legacy. Tristam- WLUWD. Bad computer- somewhere new. Porter robinson- nurture and then San holo- bb u OK?/album2
blossom is one of my favorite and is the best song in the album in my opinion.
Should’ve reacted to “fullmoon lullaby.” It’s a song released in the Japan version of the album.
My AOTY so far, I thought WLUWD can't be defeated, At this point I don't know if anyone can change this.
WLUWD 2nd best album of all time nurture best. 2021 already the best year for music
Was waiting for it
48:02 “2014, so seven years” damn time goes insanely fast, actually shocking
This isn't just an album , it's a beautiful journey ❤️
Yesss ❤️
wowee
Idk if you’ve ever listened to MitiS. Him and Porter are my favorite electronic “feels” artist. MitiS also just dropped a new album this week!
Sweet time oh my god what a great tune, this rolling beat combined with that airy voice are so smooooth. Makes me feel so light and filled with hapiness
i agree half of the album is more average
but i love the singles and the final 2 songs
tied for AOTY alongside Harmonica Andromeda
if i had a dime for every time ive cried while eating a salad, i'd have 2 dimes which is weird that it happened twice
Did you get to listen to the exclusive Japan track ? Porter Robinson & WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA - fullmoon lullaby
I have not yet! Do you know where can I find it?
@@BowtiedMedia officially you can use a VPN (set to Japan) using Spotify and unofficially, you can listen to the rips on youtube
Mother is the best one yet
i dont think anyone has made an album harder to rank than porter
Plenty of other artists have made such albums honestly.
this is my favorite album ever.
So hype :D
👍
Here are my thoughts, feel free to reply if you like:
I think I like basically every song on here except for Blossom and, to a lesser extent, Wind Tempos. However I found myself underwhelmed as a whole by the album because of its lack of cohesion.
IMO Blossom is too goddamn depressing to listen to. It just makes me feel miserable. I understand how deeply personal it is for Porter, but I just can't quite get myself to enjoy it.
Wind Tempos is a great song for when you're doing homework. Very chill, kind of like you're just flowing.
IDK, this album just feels like it's trying to do everything all at once. Chill, sad, upbeat, and whatever the hell dullscythe's beginning section is (robot sex noises??), all in one album.
I think that all of these songs are fantastic in their own right, but as an album I just don't feel like they work that well together. I don't see an obvious overall narrative or theme, it's just literally everywhere. Yeah the songs with lyrics all sort of have this theme of talking about Porter's life and stuff, but then there are just these songs with no lyrics thrown into the mix and I don't know how they fit in, narratively or musically.
The upbeat tracks, like those released in 2020 and earlier this year, are fantastic. do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do, Mother, Unfold, Trying to Feel Alive, and even Sweet Time (to some extent) are all faithful to that type of sound in the earlier songs. My problem is the tracks that don't fall within that group.
Did I enjoy it overall? Absolutely. Porter is a masterful musician. But I am also quite underwhelmed by the album as a whole. I was expecting a bunch of songs that were as much of a banger as the first few he released. No such luck. I'm not even comparing it to Worlds because that's like comparing apples and oranges -- I'm just comparing Nurture's first part to the full album, and I'm still underwhelmed.
Let's get real.
There's no words except WTF WAS DULLSCYTHE
You forgot the secret track of the album! It is called Porter Robinson & WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA - fullmoon lullab. Its exclusive to Japan only, but you can hear it in youtube
For me, the standouts are Get Your Wish, Look At The Sky, Mirror, Something Comforting and Mother. Mother is the underappreciated and hidden gem of this album on my opinion. All of these songs take me back to old school Porter. Listening to world's back on 2014. Nostalgia
Amazing video really connected to the review
You should rank Porters old album Worlds
Man i love this, can you react to the new album of Myd next week ?
His music sounds like super smash bros the more that I think about it lol
I'd love another video after you listen to it all the way through a few times. I'm IN LOVE with it. I've been through it about 16 times so far and then went for individual songs countless times. Just LOVE all around.
Oh I will posting a review for the whole album in hopefully the next 2 days
Now listen to the Secret Sky Set :']
Perfect album!
That Sax in Trying to Feel Alive got me like 🥺
Man's so hyped, I love it
loved the album, every song on it was good (yes, dullscythe too) and unfold was utterly amazing
am i weird for dullscythe being my favorite song in the album lmao
@@lua9502 no, it's my favorite as well. not much else except for Wind Tempos and do-re-mi really do anything for me here
はい!
YESSSSS
The end result of the full album took me off guard. I absolutely LOVED all of the singles and ambient stuff is not really my style. On my first listen through, Unfold was the only song that hooked me in right away. But after a few listens, I fell in love with Sweet Time, Blossom, and to a lesser extent, do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do
, Mother, and Trying to Feel Alive. Dullscythe was an interesting experimental track that has kind of fallen flat but I can still appreciate it.
I don't like Wind Tempos. It's 4 minutes of ambience and piano, which doesn't hook me in at all and 2 minutes of playing around with processed vocals that I'm not a fan of. I feel like this track could've been left out and nothing would've been lost.
I can see why he released the songs he did as singles and I think it kind of sucks that there aren't more songs in the vein of them here because it feels like two ideas (singles, and the more chill ambient tracks) were mashed into one with only some vague themes holding them together. If this had been done as 2 EPs or what Dion Timmer did with a double EP, I think this project would've been stronger. Over all, okay album 7/10
i can totally understand peoples hesitance towards dullscythe, but i think its amazing. it reminds me of fellow feeling from worlds. both of them are very experimental tracks that probably focus a bit more on conveying a message than music. i dont know for sure since im not porter, but thats what im guessing.
@@funl yea, instant fellow feeling vibes
If you don’t like more experimental ambient electronic music then yeah, this probably isn’t your album. However, it totally is my thing lmao, I absolutely adore the living fuck out of it but I get the sentiment.
Lol porter who???
How is this content
I thought I was the only one who thought it was underwhelming. Clearly didn't match it's hype at all
you didn't understand it then
It's a grower.
Definitely an underwhelming album 5.5/10