Maggie Rogers has announced her upcoming album, do not forget me-Share a video clip of the title track. Follow up until 2022 Give up It will be released on April 12 via Polydor. Check out “Don't Forget Me” as well as the album cover art and tracklist below.
Rogers produced the new LP with Ian Fitchuk, who also co-wrote eight of its ten songs, at Electric Lady Studios in New York City. The album was mixed by Sean Everett and mastered by Emily Lazar.
“I wanted to make an album that felt like a Sunday afternoon,” Roger explained. “Dressed in denim. Driving in your favorite car. No makeup, but just the right amount of lipstick. Something classic. The mohair cap and whiskey bottle in Joan Didion's hotel room. An old Corvette. Vintage, but not overly Americana.” “I wanted to make an album.” Loudly alone in your car, like a trusted friend who can ride shotgun and be there when you need her.” Read her full statement below.
do not forget me Cover artwork:
do not forget me Song list:
1. He's been coming all along
2. Drunk
3. I'm tired of dreaming
4. Murder
5. If it were now then
6. I still do it
7. Turn on and run
8. Never coming home
9. Every breath
10. Don't forget me
I had a lot of fun at every stage of making this album. I think you can hear that in the songs. And I find that's kind of the key ingredient to making all of this really fly.
This album was written over the course of five days, two songs per day – three days in December 2022, two in January 2023. It was written in chronological order.
Some of the stories in this album are mine. And for the first time really, some of them aren't. The moments I have feel like memories – glimpses from college, details from when I was 18, 22, 28 (I'm 29 now). In writing the album sequentially, a character emerged at some point. I began to imagine a girl on a journey through the American South and West. A kind of younger Thelma & Louise character who would leave home, leave a relationship, get loud, and find solace in her friends and in the promise of a new city and a new landscape. She tried to portray her life through the intimacy of Linda McCartney's images, which are spontaneous, open and free. She started over and turned the page on a new chapter in her life. Some of the stories and details in the songs are from friends or from the news. Some I completely made up, or rather, came off my own. Pen on paper. Fully formed. They were there. I believe that in this way, some profound truths about my present were able to emerge. I wasn't looking for them or digging them up, or harvesting their stories before they had a chance to fully develop. The facts about my life came from my deepest intuition. Things I wasn't willing to say out loud to myself, but they found a place in music.
Eight of the ten songs were written with my collaborator and only colleague on this album, Ian Fitchuk. The other two songs I discovered on my own were the product of my long friendship with Lee Foster, Electric Lady's manager who, in the days before Christmas, realized I was a hit and gave me an extra day of studio time to save it. Working and picking up songs coming through my hands.
Ian and I co-produced the album together, and he plays most of the instruments on the album. He's an amazingly talented and sensitive player, and he's become an even better friend. We had never worked together before this recording, but in late November of 2022, I had a whispering feeling that we could make something interesting together and I sent him a direct message out of the blue asking if he would be willing to give it a shot. I'm so grateful he said yes. These songs and session days are a record of us meeting in person for the first time, and it's so exciting to feel like we've only just scratched the surface.
Most of the demos you'll hear are first takes. The recordings were initially a collection of demos to be re-recorded with a band. I think that's how and why everything came about the way it did. I thought we were playing, shaking hands musically for the first time. We met again in March to try to solidify the arrangements, but every time we tried to change them, we still felt like we were missing something. When we listened back, we realized that taking the pressure off allowed us to drop our guards and pretensions in the studio, and the result was a lot of personality and heart. That week spent throwing shit at the wall and testing our ideas turned the casual nature of our original process into an intentional creative choice that we could support as an album. We decided to leave out all the pieces that make the recordings look real and feel human. Like performances, rather than manufactured or networked perfection. In the end, the album was made because we weren't trying to make an album.
There is a warmth that you never forget. In many ways, it feels like I'm coming home, getting back to the music and songwriting that grounded me when I first started making art in my bedroom when I was 16 years old. My friends keep saying that sounds like the version of me they know. Something looser, more daring, or more ridiculous than you've ever shown an audience before. I wanted to make an album that felt like a Sunday afternoon. Worn in denim. Drive in your favorite car. No makeup, but a decent amount of lipstick. Something classic. Mohair blanket and whiskey bottle in Joan Didion's hotel room. Old Corvette. Vintage, but not overly Americana. I wanted to make an album out loud by myself in your car, like a trusted friend who can ride shotgun and be there when you need her.
The album's lead single was also released today. After an entire summer of playing this song live, it's nice to finally feel the significance of the release. The song is a rough diary entry about going to a group of friends' weddings and feeling happy for them, but also realizing that I'm simply in a different place in my life. I've joked with my friends that it's a song about lowering expectations, but I really think it's about wanting simple baselines — a good lover or someone who's nice to me. When it comes down to it, our memories and relationships are all we have. I don't have a lot of questions, but I want my time on this earth to add something. For it to be worth it in the end. I believe remembering someone can be the greatest form of love because when we remember, love endures. When I stand at the end of my life, I hope that a lifetime of accumulated love is all I have left.
I think it's natural to give and take from each other. And that even with all the best intentions, there can be some destruction too – take my money, ruin my Sundays. There are simple things that I think we would all give up for love. I think it's just that we want our sacrifices or suffering to be meaningful. So that we don't forget all that. do not forget me.
This has been a transformative and special time in my life. I am so grateful for the many years of support and care I have been offered to allow me to access all of this my way and on my time. I can honestly say I'm more prepared than ever…and most importantly I'm having a blast. I hope you love this record as much as I do.
