Maggie Rogers on 'Don't Forget Me,' the album she wrote for a Sunday drive
Maggie Rogers wrote and recorded her new album, “Don’t Forget Me,” over five days last winter. The songs came quickly and chronologically, as if she was writing “different scenes in a movie.”
“I’ve been writing songs now for 15 years, and so I think I’ve just come into this place where I really trust my process and my craft. I think because of that, I was in a place where I was willing to just play,” Rogers said in a Zoom interview ahead of the album's release.
The result is a record that Rogers calls “relaxed,” one that finds her “unguarded and present."
The mood is lighter than Rogers’ electric 2022 album “Surrender,” which was in many ways a release of pent-up pandemic energy — a collection of songs that begged to,” the first album Rogers released after a video of Pharrell Williams reacting to her song, “Alaska,” in a University class went viral.
