Porter Robinson’s Nurture: A Live Listen Self Reflective Review
As a preface to this piece, I was asked by a friend to review Porter Robinson’s Nurture album. As an experiment, I challenged myself to write the review as I played the album in its entirety for a second time. Below are my unfiltered live reactions to Nurture.
Nurture is a profoundly touching and honest depiction of the creative struggle despite even finding success. Regardless of the success you make, there’s always this weight and pressure from those that look up to you, from those that have expectations of you that loom over your head. This album is self-reflective of the feeling Porters went through prior to Worlds and the anxiety of having to follow it up. As a creative myself, there are many feelings and lyrics that are reflective of my own creative path and they run parallel to my own feelings. In many ways Nurture gives a voice to my own thoughts, helping me and others understand myself.
Lifelike
This is the first track on the album. As the opener, its slow progression builds off the melodies on the piano and the strings that follow through with a lot of ambient noise. It’s a clean and pretty tune. In many ways, it feels like a view of nature but from a fantasy point of view. I picture the forest backdrop of Mononoke. It even somewhat feels like the feelings felt after a…
