Maggie Rogers announces new album
American singer-songwriter, Maggie Rogers, has announced details of her forthcoming new album, Surrender. The new opus was co-produced by Rogers alongside songwriter Kid Harpoon and arrives as the follow-up to her celebrated debut 2019’s Heard It In A Past Life.
The new announcement has fans on the edge of their seats as Rogers’ last single also came back in 2019, in the form of ‘Love You For A Long Time’. Now, Surrender is just around the corner. The 12-track album is set for release on July 29th via Polydor. You can pre-order it here.
A statement about Surrender claims that the project “fully captures the frenetic intensity of the last two years of her life, bringing her bracing honesty to stories of anger and peace and self-salvation, transcendence through sex and freedom through letting go.”
Detailing further, it explains: “Allowing herself abundant space to examine and embody the most complex emotions, Rogers’ fierce, unflinching vulnerability ultimately alchemizes all that heightened feeling into her most joyful output yet: a body of work built for the sweaty immediacy of live performance, raw and revelatory and primed for shared abandon.”
In a clip uploaded to YouTube to promote the album, Rogers reads out a poem that says: “When I’m angry or in love, I feel it in my teeth. / Strange harmonic buzzing. / Cuts through my hands. / My jaw. / My breast bone. / For a long time I fought it. Resisted. Held up my fists.”
The mysterious poem continues: “Tried to hold the current. Foolish. / I found peace in distortion. A chaos I could control. / Turned the drums up real loud hoping they could shock me back in. / Break the numbness. / Let the bright lights drag me out. / Do you fear what’s underneath? Is your jaw wound tight? / Do you ever want to bite? / And what if you did?”.
Watch the official trailer for Surrender below.
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