Maggie Rogers Announces New Album ‘Surrender’
Maggie Rogers has announced her new album Surrender, the singer-songwriter’s first LP since her stunning major label debut Heard It in a Past Life in 2019.
Rogers began work on Surrender — out July 29 via Capitol Records and available to preorder now — in early 2020 after a lengthy period of touring in support of her first album, which yielded the singer a Best New Artist Grammy nomination. During the pandemic, Rogers relocated to the Maine coast, cutting herself off from the outside world to write what became Surrender’s 12 tracks.
Co-produced by Rogers and Kid Harpoon, Surrender was ultimately recorded in three unique locations: Electric Lady Studios in New York City, Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios near Bath, England, and her parents’ garage.
The process was a return of sorts to how Rogers first approached making music before she became an overnight sensation — after making Pharrell cry with her song “Alaska” when he sat in on her NYU class.
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“I had always done most of my music myself,” Rogers told Carrie Brownstein in IndieLand’s Musicians on Musicians issue in 2020. “I had some really incredible co-producers on my record, but there was also this sort of speed-dating texture to it, which was really exhausting and sometimes empowering and sometimes belittling. And it was a very strange emotional dance. I really miss my solo process from high school and college at this point.”
Ahead of the album’s release, Rogers shared an artsy two-minute trailer for Surrender that previews new music and provides a poetic retelling of the album’s journey. “For a long time I fought it. Resisted. Held up my fists,” Rogers says in the album trailer. “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. “
Following the release of Heard It in a Past Life, Rogers performed at the Democratic National Convention and — following an Election Day joke — covered the Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris” alongside Phoebe Bridges to raise money for Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight.
