someone left a comment on the other video saying that "it sounds like a song that desperately wants to exist but doesn't know how" and I absolutely LOVE that
the Art Block Experience™ as portrayed by dullscythe: 0:00 randomly pressing notes/ideas and comes across an interesting random beat 0:09 plays beat one more time and tries continuing the rhythm 0:20 undo/s the change and goes back to original beat and changing up the volume 0:29 redo/s the change but keeps the volume 0:40 tries adding onto the track but gets stuck on playing with 2 notes 0:43 gets tired of the repetition and moves on to different instruments but the beats sound the same/wrong 0:57 gets frustrated and forces loud instruments, more apparent in 1:07 and 1:12 1:14 catches a glimpse of euphoria / good idea 1:19 the idea gets lost and tries to force loud instruments again to make it come back 1:25 good idea comes back but gets drowned by the other beats 1:39 realization of why you're not satisfied 1:45 a small burst of euphoria 1:49 creativity juice / energy runs out 1:53 plays the first beat one last time before sleeping (notice the fade out into dream orchestra) 2:13 dream orchestra, incoherent, but makes sense in a dream (plus the faint instrumental in bg) 2:39 waking up 2:45 the new notes aren't anything special but everything feels fresh 3:04 learning to accept what you've made as it is / euphoria 3:26 moving on to new projects 3:47 the job is done but the thought still lingers and ripples in your head you can translate this to other stuff like drawing or writing but i decided to stick close to music. btw i love every single second of this
No other track I’ve heard captures what it’s like to work in a DAW, trying out sounds, looking for something that sparks your interest, until you finally find your flow and it all comes easy. It’s like you’re listening to Porter coming up with the song in the studio.
It's in the songs name a "dull scythe" a once good tool in bad shape still being used and being sharpened after ever find. What was once dull was sharpened enough to make it useable again.
Dullscythe is such a fitting name for a song like this, as a scythe is a tool used to harvest crops and therefore, bring life. I like to think the metaphor of a "dull scythe" means feeling frustrated and limited by your tools and/or your surroundings. This song follows a journey through struggle, just like trudging on through a dark tunnel when you can't yet see the light.
Learned about this through a comment that said that the intro of Deltarune’s “Until Next Time” reminded them of this song. I’m really happy I saw that comment because it led me to this. ☺️
This song starts off with different notes being played all over the place just like how you start off life trying different things here and there. You can hear the melody sometimes in the first half but it's brief and never lasting. In life, you'll do something and think you've found your path, but it doesn't last and you're stuck trying something else again. But eventually, you'll find what you've been searching for and that's when the melody finally settles in and the song is fully realized. The visualizer shows this well going from static to moving, dynamic images. I hope everyone in the 1st half of the song in their life gets to the 2nd half soon!
You don't know how much you helped me with this. I thought I was alone in feeling this way for the longest time, but things like this makes me hope there is a way out. Just, thank you. Thank you so much
@@pedroaugusto6165 I'm glad you and others can relate as well. And I'm glad Porter's music has this message and was able to connect all of us trying to find our way. We'll all make it there eventually!
The lack of a consistent tempo adds to the emotion of it - if you watch him listening to it in the VR stream you can see his arms hitting the exact rhythms as he flails them around. This song is pure catharsis; an unwinding tangled scribble.
I got a lot more enjoyment out of it when I thought of the song as Porter's method of making music it starts off as just random beats and sounds to see what works and slowly comes together to make something consistent
This visualizer is so cool. I will be honest, Dullscythe isn't my favorite, just because in my mind I expect the melody to eventually come through in some sweeping way instead of staying fragmented. But it grows on me every time I listen to it, and who knows, in a while it might be one of my top songs from the album. That's what's so cool about music, especially Porter's. You can listen to it again and again and new things start to come through that you couldn't hear before.
I hated this song at first but after like the 3rd listen, it all clicked and made 100% sense! Top 3 favorite songs from porter in general, stupid unique!
One of the most under-rated songs on the album. It makes me feel like porter and flume had a child and they made this. It has the sort of random and off rhythm of flume, but all the emotion, passion, and love of porter's music. I love it so much
2:08 I burst into tears at this part, I've always loved it so, s o much. I love how chaotic the beginning of this song is, the way more and more instruments and harmony keep being added every passing second until the song reaches its finest at this exact minute, finally becoming an actual melody. I was unsure when it first released, since I used to think this song was way too abstract, just like Wind Tempos. But that opinion I had about both of them has completely faded since the second replay. The more I listen to Dullscythe, the more attached I feel to it and understand its meaning. This idea of progression, of not only showing you how such a rough track can be perfected little by little but also of even making you appreciate said mess after listening to it several times is so inspiring and can be applied to many aspects of life. I got so excited when Porter announced this visualizer video some days ago on Twitter, I would never have expected he'd actually make one for this! I saved it as soon as it came out and I've finally had enough time to watch it today. All kinds of ideas have browsed my mind everytime I've listened to this song before, little animatics like the ones I keep daydreaming with every other Porter track or any of my favourite songs in general. And it's impressive how close this video actually is to what I've always had in mind until now (and I'm pretty sure that's exactly what's helped the tears come out this time haha). No matter how many times I listen to Dullscythe, Get Your Wish, Something Comforting, Mirror, Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do, Look at the Sky, Trying to Feel Alive and the rest of Nurture's songs, watch their respective videos and hear Porter's explanations of each one, they'll never cease to amaze me. I'm so happy to have discovered Porter and his music, to being able to connect this much to it, to have had the chance to visit Secret Sky online that one day among many others, to have had the chance to listen to Porter talk about the origin of my favourite Nurture songs in his streamings and his Secret Sky tweets... I'm just so, so happy and thankful. Porter has changed my life completely, his music has helped me a lot during my darkest times, and whenever I listen to it I always remember how much I actually want "to feel alive". In the same way that Dullscythe develops its own melody second by second until becoming something listenable, Nurture, other artists' music and many other things have been helping me feel healthier and more complete throughout the years. Now I realize how, at the end of the day, life is just a song in constant development, and our goal is to turn this initial, loud noise into a pleasant, happy melody. If you've reached this point, thank you so much for reading!! I've never written such a long and honest comment here, and I wasn't even planning to, but I couldn't help myself in the end haha. But I'm glad I've let all of these emotions out. Whoever you are, wherever you are and whatever your current situation is, I hope you have a wonderful day/night, and remember how valid you are! The fact that you're listening to a song like this and that you've had enough interest to read my comment already shows how amazing and sensitive you are. I hope you get all of your wishes!💙💚☁️⭐
after listening to this song for a while and memorizing it i have actually never seen this video so i watched it and yea this is exactly how i imagined it in my head LOL
Because porter is a musician and people usually don't Listen to musicians they li sten to clowns like these American rappers that make lyrics that have no sense lol. Nah joke it's because porter robinson is more famous on spotify than on youtube people want to Listen to porters music more on spotify that is Not a joke
@@austinwiebe3801 1 million subscribers, I meant. Of course I wouldn't say "so close" to 17k views. I thought I made it more clear by saying "he" instead of "it". Sorry for the misunderstanding.
I truly admire nothing more than the absolute uniqueness of Porter’s visuals. I’ve never seen anything else quite like this, it’s so magical and special in its own unique way and thinking about it has literally brought me to tears so many times. Just, wow… how beautiful art can be.
Magical is definitely a great way to describe it. I personally see it as soulful, like he pours everything about him into every faucet of his art, his music videos being no exception
This song is probably the song that has grown on me the most from the album. For like the first year or so after this album released, I either would skip this song or kind of begrudgingly listen to it while listening through the album. I always felt I understood the intention with the song, but didn't love the execution. Eventually, I got to the point where I'd skip to the last minute and a half or so cause I thought that part sounded pretty, and then within the past 8 months or so, I started always listening to this song in full when I listened to the album, and it finally hit me how good this song actually is. The transition from choppy, erratic, unorganized piano keys to a really beautiful and calming melody at the end was really well done. Most underrated song on the album I'd say.
I was going to argue this, then saw your second half, I understood his intention as well, but I liked the full song from the jump. I've always likened it to a writers block, then finally comes clarity. If you wanted to be more real world about it, it's like walking through a swath of plants of trees, and finally coming across that wide opening.
You don't have to understand. Just feel it. Feel the breeze touching your skin, feel the beat echoing within your senses. Every light is a sign, a sign that leads you to something you don't even know you need.
The name sounds kinda cool to represent near death. Deaths that almost were, but failed. Thus, it was a "dull" scythe Sounds like a badass way to express making it out alive of something
I write as a hobby and I totally get this song. You have this vision that you don’t want to forget so you open up a word file and type out these random words or bullet points of just garbled ideas and random sentences or dialogue. Then you start sewing them together into paragraphs and scenes. It takes time, tweaks, deletes, fixes. It can take weeks or months. I’ve spent hours on a single page of text before because it just won’t flow. And then… it finally does, and it’s so beautiful and satisfying when it does.
I always find abandoned buildings to be oddly peaceful during the day. They give me a sense of comfort because i realise that those buildings have been through alot of history. From getting constructed for a purpose, to having inhabitants, and then being abandoned for one reason or another, but even if they remain without a purpose, the fact that they exist and can exist for many years makes them special to me, as they remind me of a younger time.
A series of random sounds, but they're really not random at all because when these sounds come together in the way that they do then you can feel what every sound intended to express emotionally.
This is one of the few nurture songs I didn't completely have a visual storyline in my head for when I listened to it, now that I see it, it's everything that I subconsciously would have wanted.
At first, I didn’t understand, then suddenly I did, then I did’t. At first, I felt nothing, then suddenly I felt everything, then nothing. And now I’m crying, I don’t even know why.
what made this more special to me is when the first half of the song (because of youtube auto quality and my bad internet) I had it on 144p but when the second half of the song came in, youtube puts it to 480p and i instantly got hit with goosebumps XD. Great video and song!
I love this song, It's like it's... figuring itself out. going through the worst, chaotic versions of itself it gets through the most violent versions and at 1:50 it gets over the hump per say, finding it's own rhythm around 2:34, Celebrating the trip through chaos around 3:05. I never knew I could feel reassured through just, noise. glitchy, (seemingly) random, beautiful noise. thank you
One night on a ride home from work, the cd in the player started skipping. Instead of stopping it, I decided to just listen to it. The skips started to sound beautiful to me as they continued. I jokingly imagined an underground scene of “scratchcore” listeners trading their favorite damaged CDs for the perfect skips. When I heard this track, I was transported back to that night. Porter, you’ve made a masterpiece. I can’t get over the erratic first half giving way to a lush ending. Beautiful chaos resolving into ordered glory. Thank you.
i think visualizers are always so cool 😎 when we all listen to a song on our own, we imagine different settings/scenarios. visualizers bring us together and allow us to see the same thing when listening to a song !! 💌
This track reminds me of Fellow Feeling in his worlds album. In the beginning it feels abstract, incomplete, dull and unthinkable. But as the song progress it captures more and more elements and puzzles the missing melodies together, turning it into absolute masterpiece. Thank you porter
A musical idea he had that he was desperately trying to bring into fruition but was struggling to figure it out and trying every preset he could find until finally it fell into place.
this song gives me a feeling i cant exactly explain. its like i see my entire life on fast forward- who i was, who i thought i was, who i am who i wanted to be, who i thought i wanted to be, and what i know i want to be going forward. its surreal.
This song sounds like someone who has an idea of how to get their life together. At first it's a bunch of random ideas that build up to ultimately fall apart. And then tries again, and again, and again. Until one finally starts to take form and then they figure it out and it becomes a full picture
guys try playing the forest (with friends) with this song running in the background. when the action subsides, you will be at peace and bliss. it feels VERY COOL.
Ever since I've discovered EDM channels that take advance of syncing the music with the video (ie Monstercat, Proximity, UKF), I've fallen in love with stuff like this. Great work Porter!
For me this song represents wanting to express who you really are but feeling trepidation to do so. Although deep down all you want to do is express who you are fully despite any possible consequences or ramifications. Eventually you begin to make space for yourself to exist and express yourself freely and find out that the only thing stopping you was yourself. 🕊️🤍
I grew attached to this song pretty quickly. The first half reminds me of what I feel like most of the day living with anxiety, fast and scattered thoughts, and the ending portions remind me of what it’s like to finally feel relief and a bit of calmness in the world that is my head.
The video is so incredibly spot on with the song its actually wild. Porter has always been a genius, but everytime i see shit like this it makes me think about how innovative some humans can truly be
The harmonics created from the abstract designs makes it a unique experience, I'm lucky I got here early 💙 Porter has always been this good yet still underrated.
someone left a comment on the other video saying that "it sounds like a song that desperately wants to exist but doesn't know how" and I absolutely LOVE that
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That’s how porter explains it, if you haven’t listened to some of his interviews. :)
Woahhh, that’s a really accurate description!
I think that gave me an idea on how to write a character based on this song now.
and you know what? this song REALLY feels like its trying to exist but cant, like literally
🗡🎼
Didn't expect, what you talking about? we were all eagerly waiting for this. ❤❤😄
It's pretty bold!
i expected it
But the video's is just amazing and unique, just like you.
Love you Porter. ❤❤❤🇮🇳
Unexpected but thank you ♥️🔥
the Art Block Experience™ as portrayed by dullscythe:
0:00 randomly pressing notes/ideas and comes across an interesting random beat
0:09 plays beat one more time and tries continuing the rhythm
0:20 undo/s the change and goes back to original beat and changing up the volume
0:29 redo/s the change but keeps the volume
0:40 tries adding onto the track but gets stuck on playing with 2 notes
0:43 gets tired of the repetition and moves on to different instruments but the beats sound the same/wrong
0:57 gets frustrated and forces loud instruments, more apparent in 1:07 and 1:12
1:14 catches a glimpse of euphoria / good idea
1:19 the idea gets lost and tries to force loud instruments again to make it come back
1:25 good idea comes back but gets drowned by the other beats
1:39 realization of why you're not satisfied
1:45 a small burst of euphoria
1:49 creativity juice / energy runs out
1:53 plays the first beat one last time before sleeping (notice the fade out into dream orchestra)
2:13 dream orchestra, incoherent, but makes sense in a dream (plus the faint instrumental in bg)
2:39 waking up
2:45 the new notes aren't anything special but everything feels fresh
3:04 learning to accept what you've made as it is / euphoria
3:26 moving on to new projects
3:47 the job is done but the thought still lingers and ripples in your head
you can translate this to other stuff like drawing or writing but i decided to stick close to music.
btw i love every single second of this
this is amazing
this is brilliant
this needs more likes wtf
GODDAMN THIS IS GOLD 🔥🔥🔥
Fuck this is so good ahhh
thank you Porter for not making this an “exclusive NFT” lol
Madeon already made an NFT, so I'm feared that Porter might also do that but I hope, he won't
This song feels like the audio version of being stuck with writers block for it to finally clear and you can begin to see the picture again
No other track I’ve heard captures what it’s like to work in a DAW, trying out sounds, looking for something that sparks your interest, until you finally find your flow and it all comes easy. It’s like you’re listening to Porter coming up with the song in the studio.
YES. That feeling of not going anywhere and suddenly taking the wheel firmly again wow
Ikr, When everything just clicks In place , it feels soooooo good
It's in the songs name a "dull scythe" a once good tool in bad shape still being used and being sharpened after ever find. What was once dull was sharpened enough to make it useable again.
someone's GPU must've been crying while rendering this
Probably someone on his team and/or the dozens of artists he has on disposal at Arte Et Labore
Yes they use unreal engine to make this.
Probably is UE5.
UE5, so probably no pain :)
@@AuNight if you think ue5 is taxing on your gpu you're not using LODs or any other optimiser
People who didn't listened the entire thing, missed the beautiful harmony in the end
Dullscythe is such a fitting name for a song like this, as a scythe is a tool used to harvest crops and therefore, bring life. I like to think the metaphor of a "dull scythe" means feeling frustrated and limited by your tools and/or your surroundings. This song follows a journey through struggle, just like trudging on through a dark tunnel when you can't yet see the light.
This track is criminally underrated
@@user-se2pl5hd5s this is just the visualizer, the song has been out since April
100%
Porter Robinson: *hears glitching sound effect*
Porter Robinson: Thats a good song
Me: he’s not wrong
porter's pc blue screen of death'd and he was like "holy shit this goes hard"
Learned about this through a comment that said that the intro of Deltarune’s “Until Next Time” reminded them of this song. I’m really happy I saw that comment because it led me to this. ☺️
This song starts off with different notes being played all over the place just like how you start off life trying different things here and there. You can hear the melody sometimes in the first half but it's brief and never lasting. In life, you'll do something and think you've found your path, but it doesn't last and you're stuck trying something else again. But eventually, you'll find what you've been searching for and that's when the melody finally settles in and the song is fully realized. The visualizer shows this well going from static to moving, dynamic images. I hope everyone in the 1st half of the song in their life gets to the 2nd half soon!
Dude I fucking love you for this ❤️
Incredible
You don't know how much you helped me with this. I thought I was alone in feeling this way for the longest time, but things like this makes me hope there is a way out. Just, thank you. Thank you so much
@@pedroaugusto6165 I'm glad you and others can relate as well. And I'm glad Porter's music has this message and was able to connect all of us trying to find our way. We'll all make it there eventually!
Amazing explanation!
i love this
I love this too
yooooo itmg i never knew u listened to porter robinson lol
I didn't know you listened to Porter. Also why aren't you uploading
itmg omg youre still alive we miss you
oh my goodness it's the seal editor
This song is like an Abstract Painting
From 2:09 till the end I cried. Don't know why
Even in a Song that literally has no Rythm until the middle you can feel how Porter poured his Soul into it.
One of my 14(15) favourites from Nurture.
The lack of a consistent tempo adds to the emotion of it - if you watch him listening to it in the VR stream you can see his arms hitting the exact rhythms as he flails them around. This song is pure catharsis; an unwinding tangled scribble.
Technically still rhythm even if its not at a consistent pace but yeah the melody and atmospheres help bring it all together for sure
@@nigelthornberry5375 vr live stream was actually such a gift.
I got a lot more enjoyment out of it when I thought of the song as Porter's method of making music
it starts off as just random beats and sounds to see what works and slowly comes together to make something consistent
@@freshstaticsnow4015 It was! Nice name :)
in 2014 we get a side view of a train in japan in Flicker, 2021 2:23 we get the first person view
This visualizer is so cool. I will be honest, Dullscythe isn't my favorite, just because in my mind I expect the melody to eventually come through in some sweeping way instead of staying fragmented. But it grows on me every time I listen to it, and who knows, in a while it might be one of my top songs from the album. That's what's so cool about music, especially Porter's. You can listen to it again and again and new things start to come through that you couldn't hear before.
I hated this song at first but after like the 3rd listen, it all clicked and made 100% sense! Top 3 favorite songs from porter in general, stupid unique!
IMO it does reach that sweeping melody at around 2:15, when it starts to stabilize
That's so true it was my least favorite but now it's profound. It's been years since I've heard profound music.
One of the most under-rated songs on the album. It makes me feel like porter and flume had a child and they made this. It has the sort of random and off rhythm of flume, but all the emotion, passion, and love of porter's music.
I love it so much
beautiful
Truly
peepoHey Otto!
Ah! Didn't know you were a Man of Culture as well.
OMG it's Otto, who that did the mods for Among Us for Toast and the gang. You and Ludwig have good taste.
Yeah one of the most interesting and unique song in nurture album and also one of my favorite song in nurture
Nice profile pic
@@CakeCastel oh wow i didn't expect another genshin player here
@@AvadotRaaex Porter should play Genshin too
hello there fellow fischl fan
@@AvadotRaaex lol porters fanbase has lots of weebs so you can find many genshin players
2:08 I burst into tears at this part, I've always loved it so, s o much. I love how chaotic the beginning of this song is, the way more and more instruments and harmony keep being added every passing second until the song reaches its finest at this exact minute, finally becoming an actual melody.
I was unsure when it first released, since I used to think this song was way too abstract, just like Wind Tempos. But that opinion I had about both of them has completely faded since the second replay. The more I listen to Dullscythe, the more attached I feel to it and understand its meaning. This idea of progression, of not only showing you how such a rough track can be perfected little by little but also of even making you appreciate said mess after listening to it several times is so inspiring and can be applied to many aspects of life.
I got so excited when Porter announced this visualizer video some days ago on Twitter, I would never have expected he'd actually make one for this! I saved it as soon as it came out and I've finally had enough time to watch it today. All kinds of ideas have browsed my mind everytime I've listened to this song before, little animatics like the ones I keep daydreaming with every other Porter track or any of my favourite songs in general. And it's impressive how close this video actually is to what I've always had in mind until now (and I'm pretty sure that's exactly what's helped the tears come out this time haha).
No matter how many times I listen to Dullscythe, Get Your Wish, Something Comforting, Mirror, Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do, Look at the Sky, Trying to Feel Alive and the rest of Nurture's songs, watch their respective videos and hear Porter's explanations of each one, they'll never cease to amaze me. I'm so happy to have discovered Porter and his music, to being able to connect this much to it, to have had the chance to visit Secret Sky online that one day among many others, to have had the chance to listen to Porter talk about the origin of my favourite Nurture songs in his streamings and his Secret Sky tweets... I'm just so, so happy and thankful. Porter has changed my life completely, his music has helped me a lot during my darkest times, and whenever I listen to it I always remember how much I actually want "to feel alive". In the same way that Dullscythe develops its own melody second by second until becoming something listenable, Nurture, other artists' music and many other things have been helping me feel healthier and more complete throughout the years. Now I realize how, at the end of the day, life is just a song in constant development, and our goal is to turn this initial, loud noise into a pleasant, happy melody.
If you've reached this point, thank you so much for reading!! I've never written such a long and honest comment here, and I wasn't even planning to, but I couldn't help myself in the end haha. But I'm glad I've let all of these emotions out. Whoever you are, wherever you are and whatever your current situation is, I hope you have a wonderful day/night, and remember how valid you are! The fact that you're listening to a song like this and that you've had enough interest to read my comment already shows how amazing and sensitive you are. I hope you get all of your wishes!💙💚☁️⭐
This is longer then one piece
Zaymnn
@@mynameisak8746 lmao
I love your comment
@@imanoljesusdelpozo4907 Tysm!
after listening to this song for a while and memorizing it i have actually never seen this video so i watched it and yea this is exactly how i imagined it in my head LOL
1:40 especially this part omg
Come on, how does he not have 1 million yet? He's so close... he deserves it
I am confident with this song out for an hour or two he will more than surpass it
@@Of_Your_Volition Yes!
Because porter is a musician and people usually don't Listen to musicians they li
sten to clowns like these American rappers that make lyrics that have no sense lol.
Nah joke it's because porter robinson is more famous on spotify than on youtube people want to Listen to porters music more on spotify that is Not a joke
So close? Bruh this has 17k views
@@austinwiebe3801 1 million subscribers, I meant. Of course I wouldn't say "so close" to 17k views. I thought I made it more clear by saying "he" instead of "it". Sorry for the misunderstanding.
This song is the “fellow feeling” of nurture, and it somehow nailed the abstract concept even better than fellow feeling did. What an incredible song
I fucking know right
I'm glad he's renewing his complextro sounds
And "Wind Tempos" kinda feels like "Goodbye To a World"
@@SilversonXmusic and unfold feels like sea of voices
@@Jef_ and imo musician feels like flicker
this headphone experience man...
Sounds like something by Oneohtrix Point Never
This video is just as incredible as the song.
Ikr , its so fantastic
It's better
If something in your environment seems dissonant, take a step back: together, all these little things could form a great symphony.
I truly admire nothing more than the absolute uniqueness of Porter’s visuals. I’ve never seen anything else quite like this, it’s so magical and special in its own unique way and thinking about it has literally brought me to tears so many times. Just, wow… how beautiful art can be.
Magical is definitely a great way to describe it. I personally see it as soulful, like he pours everything about him into every faucet of his art, his music videos being no exception
This song is probably the song that has grown on me the most from the album. For like the first year or so after this album released, I either would skip this song or kind of begrudgingly listen to it while listening through the album. I always felt I understood the intention with the song, but didn't love the execution. Eventually, I got to the point where I'd skip to the last minute and a half or so cause I thought that part sounded pretty, and then within the past 8 months or so, I started always listening to this song in full when I listened to the album, and it finally hit me how good this song actually is. The transition from choppy, erratic, unorganized piano keys to a really beautiful and calming melody at the end was really well done. Most underrated song on the album I'd say.
I was going to argue this, then saw your second half, I understood his intention as well, but I liked the full song from the jump. I've always likened it to a writers block, then finally comes clarity. If you wanted to be more real world about it, it's like walking through a swath of plants of trees, and finally coming across that wide opening.
The amount of detail is insane…
One of the most underrated songs on the album. Beautiful track all around, great to see it get a video like this!
I wish the second part lasted longer.
One of the most unhinged parts of the album, an experimental masterpiece
Ah, I'm glad i stay all night on YT today..
Kek kenal
its2 pm
It's nearly 9pm where I live! (UK)
Sleep well
lah bang
You don't have to understand. Just feel it. Feel the breeze touching your skin, feel the beat echoing within your senses. Every light is a sign, a sign that leads you to something you don't even know you need.
The name sounds kinda cool to represent near death. Deaths that almost were, but failed. Thus, it was a "dull" scythe
Sounds like a badass way to express making it out alive of something
Like surviving cancer
before: ➡️⬆️⬇️⬅️➡️⬇️⬆️⬅️⬇️⬆️➡️⬅️⬇️➡️⬆️⬅️⬇️
after: Beautiful Song 🎶 💚
All my eye direction going acc to beats surrounding 😂
this is what happens when you put imaginary numbers on your timescale
masterpiece
I write as a hobby and I totally get this song. You have this vision that you don’t want to forget so you open up a word file and type out these random words or bullet points of just garbled ideas and random sentences or dialogue.
Then you start sewing them together into paragraphs and scenes. It takes time, tweaks, deletes, fixes. It can take weeks or months. I’ve spent hours on a single page of text before because it just won’t flow.
And then… it finally does, and it’s so beautiful and satisfying when it does.
I always find abandoned buildings to be oddly peaceful during the day. They give me a sense of comfort because i realise that those buildings have been through alot of history. From getting constructed for a purpose, to having inhabitants, and then being abandoned for one reason or another, but even if they remain without a purpose, the fact that they exist and can exist for many years makes them special to me, as they remind me of a younger time.
Progress is all that matters, not perfection.
Thank you, Mr. Robinson.
Screenshotting this for later. Thanks for the inspiration :)
The best is not perfect
The rest is not worth it
yo the editing is lit af
F to the GPU of whoever rendered this though, must’ve really suffered.
@@jay-virm i can do this but my PC is gonna on fire
WOWOOWWWWWOWOWOW
A series of random sounds, but they're really not random at all because when these sounds come together in the way that they do then you can feel what every sound intended to express emotionally.
this is so beautiful i'd love some of these scenes as a wallpaper
I'm sure some of these will be on wallpaper engine soon
Cute furry pic
For now you may as well sc them at the highest quality. But I agree
BEST SONG ON NURTURE DON’T @ ME
I will, but to second you..
_cause all songs are best in Nurture according to me lmaoo_
Omg Kabar
@@cloudscape5996 OMG CLOUD
@@cloudscape5996 yo what's up Cloud.
@@goodnightosaka CHASE DUNKLEY YOOO
i wish i lived in porter's universe
This song defines the "Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything" quote.
Deserved, highly underrated song
This is one of the few nurture songs I didn't completely have a visual storyline in my head for when I listened to it, now that I see it, it's everything that I subconsciously would have wanted.
I like how this song sounds like it was suppose to be a D&b song.
THIS IS SO HEALING
Now my eyes can experience the chaotic art of dullscythe (☆▽☆)
At first, I didn’t understand, then suddenly I did, then I did’t.
At first, I felt nothing, then suddenly I felt everything, then nothing.
And now I’m crying, I don’t even know why.
what made this more special to me is when the first half of the song (because of youtube auto quality and my bad internet) I had it on 144p but when the second half of the song came in, youtube puts it to 480p and i instantly got hit with goosebumps XD.
Great video and song!
I love this song, It's like it's... figuring itself out. going through the worst, chaotic versions of itself it gets through the most violent versions and at 1:50 it gets over the hump per say, finding it's own rhythm around 2:34, Celebrating the trip through chaos around 3:05. I never knew I could feel reassured through just, noise. glitchy, (seemingly) random, beautiful noise. thank you
I love this explanation. This is how it feels when listening to it.
Let the song played at 23:57:51 of 12/31/64 and the song would become melodic at 00:00:00 of the new year! BLESS!
64 😳 haha:)
Flume vibes!
this sounds like trying to revive all the happy memories in your life, you see parts of them, but they're shattered all over.
This is it y’all, I’ve found the piano equivalent to breakcore
2:09 hit me like a truck my first listen
One night on a ride home from work, the cd in the player started skipping. Instead of stopping it, I decided to just listen to it. The skips started to sound beautiful to me as they continued. I jokingly imagined an underground scene of “scratchcore” listeners trading their favorite damaged CDs for the perfect skips. When I heard this track, I was transported back to that night. Porter, you’ve made a masterpiece. I can’t get over the erratic first half giving way to a lush ending. Beautiful chaos resolving into ordered glory. Thank you.
And then it repeats, its a never ending cycle. To create something beautiful is to sacrifice a piece of yourself to the ever-changing world.
This is amazing, its like Aphex Twin but it doesn't give you anxiety.
it’s closer to Oneohtrix Point Never’s album R+7, this seems to be directly inspired by it
i think visualizers are always so cool 😎 when we all listen to a song on our own, we imagine different settings/scenarios. visualizers bring us together and allow us to see the same thing when listening to a song !! 💌
Really well put
@@irecordwithaphone1856 thank u ! ❤️
Hi Jessie :)
@@scifii_official HII
YES! This track deserves a music video.
Having ADHD and Dyslexia fighting with creativity to make my own way.
When you're broken, but you learn to use that broken rythem to make your own music and eventually make something beautiful.
This track reminds me of Fellow Feeling in his worlds album. In the beginning it feels abstract, incomplete, dull and unthinkable. But as the song progress it captures more and more elements and puzzles the missing melodies together, turning it into absolute masterpiece. Thank you porter
Feels like i travelled 100 miles with in a forest
A musical idea he had that he was desperately trying to bring into fruition but was struggling to figure it out and trying every preset he could find until finally it fell into place.
this song gives me a feeling i cant exactly explain. its like i see my entire life on fast forward-
who i was, who i thought i was, who i am
who i wanted to be, who i thought i wanted to be, and what i know i want to be going forward. its surreal.
Right I thought I was the only one.to feel that...as I'm barely hearing this from Him and it's such a vibe
secretly this whole song was a recreation of Porter's first time messing around with samples on a launchpad
/s
OUT OF ALL THINGS I WAS NOT EXPECTING THIS AAAAHDKDJDJDJ
This song sounds like someone who has an idea of how to get their life together. At first it's a bunch of random ideas that build up to ultimately fall apart. And then tries again, and again, and again. Until one finally starts to take form and then they figure it out and it becomes a full picture
Happy Birthday Porter Robinson
guys try playing the forest (with friends) with this song running in the background. when the action subsides, you will be at peace and bliss. it feels VERY COOL.
Ok Carson
@@NChawk ffs do not call him carson
Try playing this while benchmarking PC, it will get you anxious for no reason
a flashing lights warning might be a good idea
this song makes me feel like I've lost everything...
I don't care if it's noisy and all over the place: this is one of my faves on the album hands down.
Okay, but ain't we gonna talk about how the first half just FLIES around your ears?! That's so poggies
Do you realize that Porter is saving electronic music?
How it all comes together…despite the chaos of life. This is proof we can overcome
This is more then art or music
This is life.
I was dying to see visuals for this song, it’s so unique!
Ever since I've discovered EDM channels that take advance of syncing the music with the video (ie Monstercat, Proximity, UKF), I've fallen in love with stuff like this. Great work Porter!
im so in love with this
whenever im stressed i listen to this song
For me this song represents wanting to express who you really are but feeling trepidation to do so. Although deep down all you want to do is express who you are fully despite any possible consequences or ramifications.
Eventually you begin to make space for yourself to exist and express yourself freely and find out that the only thing stopping you was yourself. 🕊️🤍
I grew attached to this song pretty quickly. The first half reminds me of what I feel like most of the day living with anxiety, fast and scattered thoughts, and the ending portions remind me of what it’s like to finally feel relief and a bit of calmness in the world that is my head.
This feels like being stressed or depressed, and then you finally get over it. And you suddenly feel like you have something again
The video is so incredibly spot on with the song its actually wild. Porter has always been a genius, but everytime i see shit like this it makes me think about how innovative some humans can truly be
ไร้ซึ่งเนื้อเพลง ไร้ซึ่งความหมาย กลับทำให้รู้สึกมีชีวิตชีวา เหมือนเกิดใหม่อีกครั้ง
toby fox surely was inspired by this music to make "until next time" by deltarune
The harmonics created from the abstract designs makes it a unique experience, I'm lucky I got here early 💙 Porter has always been this good yet still underrated.
so unique to me. never heard of it this kind of song before