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PORTER ROBINSON
announces first full-length album
in seven years

‘NURTURE’
available Friday 23 April

+ NEW SINGLE LOOK AT THE SKY OUT NOW

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Photo credit: Dan Regan

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“Robinson re-emerged this year as an electronic singer-songwriter in one of the great musical transformations of 2020.” – THE FADER 

“Robinson’s uniqueness could be attributed to his dedication to the search for beauty and magnificence wherever he can find it.” – ATWOOD MAGAZINE

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Nurture, the first album from acclaimed vocalist, songwriter and producer Porter Robinson in seven years, is slated for release on Friday 23 April via Mom+Pop.  Today, Porter shares a highly anticipated new single, Look At The Sky, alongside a visualiser, watch it here.

“Look at the Sky is fundamentally a song about hope,” Porter says. “There’s no shortage of fuel for despair, but you can’t take meaningful action to improve things if you don’t have some belief that things might get better. That’s what hope is, and I think it’s an emotion worth nourishing. I wrote this song at my lowest point emotionally, when I thought I couldn’t make music anymore, and I wasn’t sure if my existence would have any meaning if I couldn’t make music. In the lyrics, I’m sort of imagining what life would be like once I was on the other side of all that fear and anxiety and sadness. I’m happy to report that it’s amazing on the other side of all this, and I’m so glad I had hope and persisted.”

Look At The Sky, which Porter originally debuted during his Secret Sky livestream event last May, follows the first three offerings from Nurture – Mirror, which The FADER called a “musical panacea” in its Best Songs of 2020 list; Get Your Wish, was also praised by The FADER as “a skittish glimmer of a track that climbs its way up to total euphoria” and Something Comforting, which finds Robinson in a moment of “melancholic introspection” swaying “between heavily layered production and subdued instrumentation” according to UPROXX.

Nurture spans a highly challenging period in Porter’s life. Following his 2014 debut Worlds, which found him headlining festivals worldwide and being heralded as a wunderkind of a burgeoning new style of electronic music, Porter began to experience severe anxiety under the pressure of his success to a degree that was creatively crippling, smothered by his own self-criticism and high expectations. A vicious cycle began to take hold—the more Porter struggled to write, the more his sense of self unraveled, leaving him in a state of despair, which was exacerbated by his brother’s diagnosis with a rare and aggressive cancer.

Through much personal work, Porter began to claw himself out of his creative slump little by little. He began to experiment with a completely new sound inspired by early-aughts rave music, which turned into critically acclaimed side project Virtual Self. After some time, he finally returned to the piano and his own voice as the basis for the next evolution in his sound. Nurture is the resulting document of this period, a testament to hope and persistence in the face of the negative voices in one’s own head. It is a hopeful, intimate album that champions the power of vulnerability while paying homage to the struggles that pushed him to grow. This iteration of Porter’s sound stands starkly in contrast to his prior productions as it blends live instruments, digital synths, artificially pitched vocals, chopped samples and cozy ambience.

Nurture will be available in a number of physical formats. The Deluxe Vinyl Box Set includes opaque white vinyl and deluxe gatefold jacket with boxset-exclusive alternate album art, six 7” singles with box set-exclusive alternate album art and a Nurture hardcover artbook plus complete lyric booklet. The Standard Vinyl includes the opaque white vinyl discs and a matte finish gatefold jacket as well as the Nurture lyric booklet, while the Standard Retail Vinyl features clear vinyl discs with matte finish gatefold jacket as well as the Nurture lyric booklet. All physical orders come with a digital download of the album.  Pre-order the album and new merchandise here.

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In May of 2020, Porter put on the Secret Sky streaming festival, marking his only performance of the year. The 14-hour livestream event, which Porter created as a way to give his favourite musicians a platform to perform, featured sets by G Jones, Jai Wolf, Kizuna AI, Madeon, San Holo, A. G. Cook, Anamanaguchi and others. The livestream was broadcasted via a digital auditorium built with state-of-the-art technology and attracted more than four million viewers, with the YouTube chat peaking at 8,813 chats per second during Porter’s performance of the previously unheard Look at the Sky.

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About Porter Robinson

At age 18, the North Carolina-based producer and songwriter burst onto the scene in 2010 with a complex, bombastic brand of electro-house beats. His debut album Worlds was released four years later to widespread critical and commercial success, included RIAA Gold single Sad Machine, and established Porter as a mainstay of electronic pop and a deft crafter of “gorgeous textures, contemplative storytelling and remarkably sharp melodies,” as The New York Times remarked.

Following the major success of his debut album, Porter released the RIAA Gold single Shelter with Madeon in 2016, followed by a Shelter Live Tour spanning 43 dates and four continents. The following year, in an attempt to display his growing interest in interdisciplinary art and nostalgia for Y2K trance, Porter began releasing music under a new alias, Virtual Self, which lead to his first Grammy nomination for the BBC Radio 1 hit single Ghost Voices.

His success eventually provided the chance to create his own music festival in partnership with Coachella promoter Goldenvoice. Second Sky, a two-day event launched in 2019, sold out all 30,000 tickets in a single day and is planned to return again to the San Francisco Bay Area soon.

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NEW SINGLE LOOK AT THE SKY OUT NOW
NEW ALBUM NURTURE – OUT APRIL 23

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