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<h3>My relationship with <i>Nurture</i></h3>
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<time datetime='Sat, 11 Nov 2023 21:00:00 CST'>11 Nov 2023, 9:00 PM</time>
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<p>I didn’t realize I liked this one as much as I apparently do</p>
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<time datetime='Sat, 11 Nov 2023 21:00:00 CST'>11 Nov 2023, 9:00 PM</time>
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<p>I didn’t realize I liked this one as much as I apparently do</p>
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<h1 id='title'>My relationship with <i>Nurture</i></h1>
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<time datetime='Sat, 11 Nov 2023 21:00:00 CST'>11 Nov 2023, 9:00 PM</time>
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Hi! It’s been quite a while since I last posted.
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I was actually trying to add some more pages to my <a href='../library/songbook'>songbook</a>,
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a section I added during the <a href='../library/webjam'>webjam</a> I hosted,
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but I realized I had enough to say that this would probably do better as a blog post.
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Since it’s been so long, I want to give a little life update.
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I stopped posting because I was busy looking for a place to move.
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I’ve successfully moved at this point,
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but since then, I’ve been pretty busy, and I’m still not sure about whether I’ll get gomeposting back into my regular schedule.
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I’d like to if possible!
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The way I process music is always changing, depending on my life circumstances.
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A consequence of this is that when I first encounter some music, I don’t give it more than a short try before setting it aside, and then coming back to it months later.
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What draws me back to an album is often a feeling that an album aligns with what I’m going through right now, that it has something I need, that it can meet me where I’m at.
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I heard about <i>Nurture</i> for the first time in late 2022, and I just listened to a couple tracks at that time, mainly <i>do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do</i>, which is actually a fairly minor track overall.
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Over the winter, I started to appreciate the song <i>Get Your Wish</i> more.
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It was kind of a tough winter for me, and I felt I could relate to the themes of struggle and renewal.
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I’m not sure why it didn’t occur to me at that time to look at the whole album.
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I had no idea there were so many other great tracks waiting for me in the same vein as <i>Get Your Wish</i>.
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Maybe part of it was that I wasn’t sure I would like the overall aesthetic of it.
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In hindsight, <i>Nurture</i> seems like a case where the ideas and feelings communicated are able to cut through aesthetic preferences, to a degree.
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I actually ended up liking the aesthetic anyway, so who knows.
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<i>Nurture</i> is not the only music I’ve heard that uses a lot of <a href='snails-house.html'>electronic artifice</a> to keenly express a sense of larger-than-life human feeling.
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But the feeling-world it articulates is a unique mix of energetically uplifting, conflicted but earnestly trying, and nostalgically comforting that I don’t think has an equivalent in either the acoustic or electronic domains.
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It threads the very difficult needle of both sounding like it’s trying to make you feel something (like a lot of electronic music) while also genuinely making you want to come along on its journey and feel something.
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What makes all the difference here is a palpable sense of an actual person, real experiences woven into the lyrics, the melodic storytelling, the flashy production choices.
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I’ve <a href='self-expression.html'>tried</a> (badly) to articulate this before, but I think art is at its best when it’s expressing something greater than just the artist, which is why I don’t love to focus on the term “self-expression”.
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But there’s a great paradox that <i>Nurture</i> demonstrates so well, which is that starting with really honest self-expression is sometimes the best way to reach greater-than-self expression.
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The feeling-world I mentioned above, struggle and passion and fear and hope, is something I imagine a lot of people in my stage of life can relate to.
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And there seems to be an increasing cultural appetite for earnestness.
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So I doubt I’m the only one who has felt like this album reached them at a special moment in life.
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There are many things in this life that can make us lose courage,
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make us doubt that it’s really possible to live with our whole hearts.
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But the threat of that despair is itself a reminder of what we really want,
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which I think is to reach out to other people and keep loving and caring in spite of everything,
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no matter what life throws at us, even if it’s hard,
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even if we keep undermining ourselves along the way.
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This album gave me hope during dark times.
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This album reminded me to keep fighting for myself.
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This album made me cry several times.
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Maybe I should bump it up to a five on Rate Your Music.
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Have you listened to <i>Nurture</i>?
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Did you relate to it?
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Do you know other albums that have a similar feeling?
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Are there other albums that took you a while to get interested in?
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Let me know your thoughts at my Ctrl-C email: <code>gome<span style='user-select: none;'> ​</span>@<span style='user-select: none;'> ​</span>ctrl-c.club</code>.
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<title>My relationship with Nurture</title>
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<author>gome</author>
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<li><a href='../journal/fantasma.html'>My relationship with <i>Fantasma</i></a> by Cornelius</li>
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<li><a href='../journal/songs-from-philadelphia.html'>My relationship with <i>Songs From Philadelphia</i></a> by The John Conahan Group</li>
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<li><a href='../journal/hours-were-the-birds.html'>My relationship with <i>Hours Were the Birds</i></a> by Adrianne Lenker</li>
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<li><a href='../journal/nurture.html'>My relationship with <i>Nurture</i></a> by Porter Robinson</li>
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