Hear Porter Robinson’s own track-by-track commentary on ‘Worlds’

“I genuinely don’t want to be playing electro bangers anymore,” Porter Robinson told Billboard back in March, and his debut album Worlds has delivered on the promise of doing things differently. Now the producer has recorded a track-by-track commentary for Spotify to take fans inside his musical headspace.

In the commentary, Robinson reveals how the album was a true labor of love. ”To me the whole motif behind the album is these fictional worlds,” he says. “For some people that’s literature, for others that’s music; for me, it’s video games.”

Each track has its own story, too. “‘Years Of War’ was probably the hardest song for me to write,” Robinson reveals. “I totalled over 100 hours working on that one alone.” Then there’s the explanation behind that abrasive drop on ”Fellow Feeling.”

“I was really frustrated with heavy 128-BPM stuff,” he explains, “so I turned ['Fellow Feeling'] into this evil, ugly techno monster that doesn’t really have a danceable meter to it. To me, that song’s meant to help people understand where my head was at with dance music. But one of my fears with renouncing dance music was that people were going to take it as me also renouncing all of my old music, and that’s not what I ever wanted.

“That music stood for something for me at the time, and I wrote it for a reason. This idea of just writing heavy, aggressive beats for the sake of it – I feel like I was expressing some violence towards that idea. I think the vocal makes that pretty literal.”

You can hear the entire album commentary over on Spotify, and don’t forget to catch Robinson along his North American tour kicking off August 28.