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Porter Robinson returns with new single, Get Your Wish
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 31 January 2020
Six years since his debut album ‘Worlds’, Porter Robinson has announced that he will release the follow-up later this year, titled ‘Nurture’. The delay between albums, he explains, stretched further as he struggled with the pressure of creating something new.
“I was doing really badly in 2015, 2016 and 2017”, he says. “My entire life revolved around making music, but for the first time in my life, I was struggling to make anything at all. I was desperate to make something I was proud of, but the more I struggled, the worse the problem became. I was very seriously depressed and genuinely thought my life as I knew it was over. It was about three years of trying to write music, failing, and being crushed by it every single day”.
“There were times when I wondered if it was pointless for me to keep trying”, he goes on. “I didn’t even know what I was hoping for. If I had come this far and I was still dissatisfied and unhappy, then it was impossible not to ask, ‘Even if I do finish new music, what am I hoping is gonna happen? What is it I want that I don’t currently have? Am I gonna be happy then? Why am I not happy now?’ I felt like I had no options – because while the prospect of struggling indefinitely was terrifying, the thought of quitting music was much worse”.
Eventually, he says, “I realised I shouldn’t write music with the expectation that 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'”.
The first single from the album, ‘Get Your Wish’, is out now, and, says Robinson, is about the “breakthrough” that he’s just described. “It’s about that breakthrough”, he confirms, “which was one of many that helped me through those years. Making music started to make me happy again”.
Watch the video for ‘Get Your Wish’ here:
