It is not long after the release of the first film to use Robinson, in 2014, which convinced that you could no longer make music. The album had hit No. 18 on Billboard 200, made its debut in No. 1 in dance / electronic albums and established Robinson, after 22 years, as a pioneer of a new and intelligent electronic music flavor designed for young people raised on the Internet and anime.
The tension to remove a avant -garde stick similar to the paralyzing was paralyzed. In 2016, Robinson had been running a new album for two years and possibly had two concepts to show. Thinking that he only worked enough, he cut everything in his life that had nothing to do with music: friends, pleasure, life reports that can also give him inspiration. He did not help. The cases were dark later that year, when his youngest brother Mark won a rare cancer diagnosis.
“It was then that I was in my maximum unhealthy,” Robinson recalls in a zoom in his space in Chapel Hill, in North Carolina. “I was very depressed and very anxious. I was terrified by the concept of leaving my parents’ space. ” But when he had become “extremely linked” to the concept that he was stuck, it was not true. At the end of 2017, Robinson published an EP of five track under one alias, Virtual Self: Tribute to the last 90 and early 00 years. His single, “Ghost Voices”, received a Grammy Award for the maximum productive dance recording before Robinson forgets it.
“I told myself things like:” I have been running in this album for six years, and at all times stinks and still fights as much as “,” he says. “There is such omission of a component of reality, I have done this task about the aspect in the meantime, and I have the impression that my enthusiasts too. “
His basis of enthusiasts, a Robinson organization says he is very delicate, was hungry for the continuation of the world. After having released the Virtual Self EP, the music that would become his album at the moment began to be easier. I intended to make songs with pop structures; I just had to perceive how. “I have only written falls for 10 years,” he said about the worlds and the production of Dubstep that preceded him. “I had never written a choir. “
Robinson established his hours of awakening in the lyrics, the structure of the songs and the learning to record his own voice, with “a giant component of the album aimed at this concept of making music, because it is the only thing that happens in my life. “
Then he met his girlfriend, Rika Mikuriya, and his technique for life and art evolved. “One of the themes of this album is to meet you love so deep that you are afraid to die for the first time in your life,” he said. “It is so transparent to me that I cannot die at the altar of art here. I can no longer locate it to burn and die in its thirty years to be a romantic idea. “
Robinson began to spend time out of the studio, without seeing his phone in the morning, wrapping his paintings days before and seeing his friends again. Balance – “Starting to prioritize my own well with my music,” explains Robinson – helped announce well -titled breeding, April 23 in Mom + Pop.
The stab and the single arrow of the album, “Get Your Wish,” arrived in early 2020, with a second, “Subject Comfort”, after March 10, as well as a giant component of the global was the blockade. Initially intended for a release date in September 2020, Nurture was postponed due to the pandemic, which provides Robinson for more time to redo the task more or less. He wrote new songs, replaced the existing music and prolonged the album from 11 to 14 titles. Writing on a piano, he composed, recorded and sang each song, showing his voice to look at children and women, an effect that felt relieved by noticing that can be recreated in a genuine time when he sings during the long -term live performances.
Robinson performed his only set in 2020 at his live festival, Secret Sky, an occasion of 1 four hours that he produced in the space hall of his parents. (“My mother making pancakes; we had all kinds of snacks,” he said. “It’s like Super Bowl”). Starting through artists such as Madeon and G Jones, the exhibition attracted four million viewers, according to Robinson’s team. (An iteration at the time of Secret Sky is scheduled for April 2, with a program that adds Rezz, Boys Noize and Baauer. ) Two hundred and fifty thousand people saw the Robinson set, which closed with the dynamic “Look Oat the Sky”, a song that has recently transmitted a fresh adult radio.
“I have the idea of almost all care through the objective of pop music in the sense that it is motivated through verses / choirs,” says Robinson, “but never an idea of radio. ” This is the choir of the song: “Look at the sky / I am still here / I will be alive next year”, who believes horny for a broader audience this collective moment of cautious optimism.
But as Aaron Greene, Robinson’s co-management in Slush, says: “It has no purpose to be a pop star or transcendent electronic music. Porter is looking to notice what was desirable to the maximum and follow this passion. “
From the end of the album, Robinson’s approach has faithful “All My Life” to Lugheentrally “to the conception of the live show of Nurture, which will reach the road when the public aptitude allows it. Although the origin confirmed our minds to make this show more melancholic to correspond to the unhappy and concerned atmosphere of the album”, as I eat the program. Robinson says “, so he remembers an album, perhaps according to the album, and maybe it is an album, and perhaps it has been an album, and perhaps he has been on the album, and maybe he has been on the album, and maybe he has been in the album, and maybe he has been in the album, and perhaps he has been an album. Living during the past year, I kept establishing pleasure. I couldn’t stop. I wasn’t doing everything in a more laughter of herself. “
It is true that a focus of this delight live will be the last breeding single, “musician”. The last song that Robinson wrote for the album, the song is anchored through the line “I am so excited / when despite everything I locate / becomes brighter from now on”, which reaches an ecstatic cut production. This summarizes his artistic process, his improvement in the well -being, the remission of his brother and the global mood.
“Throughout the album, you can feel the component of concern, concern, anxiety and concern I feel,” he said. “In” Musician “, I did not feel it at all. I simply felt natural joy and emotion. It was the goal: I was looking to succeed in this position where you could write music in a way that can be vulnerable and do what I like with the confidence I had.
An edition of this story gave the impression on the April 24 factor of Billboard.