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MAGGIE ROGERS - Don't Forget Me - Indie Exclusive Dogwood Vinyl

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MAGGIE ROGERS - Don't Forget Me - Dogwood Vinyl

Released: April 12th 2024

February 8, 2024 — (Hollywood, CA) —GRAMMY® Award-nominated songwriter/producer/performer Maggie Rogers will
release Don’t Forget Me, her third studio album, on April 12 via Capitol Records.
“I wanted to make an album that sounded like a Sunday afternoon,” explains Rogers in the letter below, which tells the story
of the making of Don’t Forget Me. “Worn in denim. A drive in your favorite car. No make up, but the right amount of lipstick.
Something classic. The mohair throw and bottle of Whiskey in Joan Didion’s motel room.  An old corvette. Vintage, but not
overly Americana. I wanted to make an album to belt at full volume alone in your car, a trusted friend who could ride shotgun
and be there when you needed her.”
Today, Rogers shared the title track – an intimate reflection on the legacy we create through our relationships. The
accompanying video was filmed in Super 8 in Maine and unfolds with an organic energy akin to the album as it tracks the
simple, reassuring rhythms of daily life.

She co-produced Don’t Forget Me with Ian Fitchuk (Kacey Musgraves, Maren Morris) at Electric Lady Studios in New York City,
writing eight of its 10 songs with him and penning two alone. Shawn Everett (Brittany Howard, The War on Drugs) mixed. The
album was mastered by Emily Lazar (Beck, Coldplay), who has mastered all of Rogers’ albums to date.
Rogers debuted “Don’t Forget Me,” “The Kill” and “So Sick Of Dreaming” during her sold-out Summer of ’23 North American
headline tour, which brought her to iconic venues such as Red Rocks and the Hollywood Bowl. Additional songs were
previewed during last month’s listening parties, which celebrated the 5 th anniversary of the release of Heard It In A Past Life,
her 2019 debut album.
Heard It In A Past Life entered Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart at No. 1 and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. Now
certified Gold by the RIAA, the album has sold nearly a million copies worldwide and accrued one billion combined global
streams. Her 2022 follow up album, Surrender, also earned widespread praise, with Rolling Stone hailing Rogers as a “pop
music prodigy…an artist who’s in it for the long haul” and Pitchfork noting, “she sounds renewed, submitting to the pull of her
heart without apology.”
Maggie Rogers on Don’t Forget Me:
I have had so much fun at every stage of making this album. I think you can hear it in the songs. And I’m finding it’s sort of the
key ingredient to making all of this really fly. 
This album was written over five days, two songs a day —  three days in December 2022, two in January 2023. It was written in
chronological order.
 
Some of the stories on this album are mine.  And for the first time really, some of them are not. The moments that are mine
feel like memories — glimpses from college, details from when I was 18, 22, 28 (I’m 29 now). In writing the album sequentially,
at some point a character emerged. I started to picture a girl on a roadtrip through the American south and west. A sort of
younger Thelma & Louise character who was leaving home and leaving a relationship, processing out loud, finding solace in her
friends and in the promise of a new city and new landscape. I tried to capture her life with the intimacy of Linda McCartney’s
photographs, spontaneous and open and free. She’s starting over, turning 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 just completely made up, or rather, sort of flew out
of me. Pen to paper. Fully formed. There they were. I think in this way, some of the deepest truths about my present were able
to come forward. I wasn’t looking for them or digging them up, harvesting their stories before they had the chance to become
fully grown. The truths about my life came from my deepest intuition. Things I wasn’t ready to say out loud to myself, but they
found a place in the music. 
 
Eight of the ten songs were written with my sole collaborator and teammate on this album, Ian Fitchuk. The other two songs I
uncovered on my own and were the product of my long friendship with Lee Foster, the  Electric Lady manager who, in the days
before Christmas, realized I was on a roll and gifted me an extra day of studio time to keep working and catching the 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 such an amazingly gifted
player and feeler, and has become an even better friend. We had never worked together before this record, but in late
November of 2022, I had a whispering feeling that we could make something interesting together and I DM’d him out of the
blue wondering if he’d be open to give it a shot. I’m so grateful he said yes.  These songs and session days are a record of our
first time meeting in person, and it’s so exciting to feel that we’ve only just scratched the surface. 
 
Most of the performances you’ll hear are first takes. The recordings were initially a collection of demos to be re-recorded with
a band. I think this is how and why it all came into being in the way that it did. I just thought we were playing, musically shaking
hands for the first time. We met again in March to try to beef up the arrangements, but every time we tried to change them,
we kept feeling like we lost something. When we listened back, we realized that taking the pressure off allowed us to drop our
guards and pretenses in the studio, the result being a whole lot of character and heart. That week of throwing shit at the wall
and testing our ideas turned the casualness of our original process into a deliberate creative choice that we could stand behind
as an album. We decided to leave all the pieces that make the recordings feel real and feel human. Like performances, instead
of manufactured or gridded perfection. In the end, the album was made because we weren’t trying to make an album. 

There’s a warmth to Don’t Forget Me. In many ways, it feels like coming home, returning to the music and songwriting that
grounded me when I first started making art in my bedroom when I was 16. My friends keep saying it sounds like the version of
me that they know. Something looser, or sassier, or sillier than I’ve shown in public before. I wanted to make an album that
sounded like a Sunday afternoon. Worn in denim. A drive in your favorite car. No make up, but the right amount of lipstick.
Something classic. The mohair throw and bottle of Whiskey in Joan Didion’s motel room.  An old corvette. Vintage, but not
overly Americana. I wanted to make an album to belt at full volume alone in your car, a trusted friend who could ride shotgun
and be there when you needed her.
The album’s title track is also out today. After an entire summer of playing this song live it feels GOOD to finally be feeling the
levity of release. The song is a rough journal entry about going to a bunch of friends' weddings and feeling so happy for them,
but also realizing that I'm very simply in a different place in my life. I've joked with my friends that it's a song about having low
expectations, but really I think it's about craving simple baselines - a good lover or someone that'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 asks, but I want my time spent on this earth to
add up to something. For it all to be worth it in the end. I think remembering someone can be the greatest form of loving
because when we remember, the love lives on. When I'm standing at the end of my life, I hope a lifetime of accumulated love
is what I'm left with.
I think its inherent that we give and take from each other. And that even with all the best intentions there can be some
destruction too - take my money, wreck my Sundays. There are simple things I think we'd all give up for love. I think it's just
about wanting our sacrifices or suffering to be meaningful. To have it all not be forgotten. Don't forget me.
 
This has been such a transformational and special time in my life. I’m so grateful for many years of support and care I’ve been
offered to let me come to all of this in my way and in my time. I can honestly say I’m more ready than I've ever been…and most
importantly, I’m having a blast. I hope you love this record as much as I do. 

Track Listing – Don’t Forget Me
Side A
01 - It Was Coming All Along
02 - Drunk
03 - So Sick of Dreaming
04 - The Kill
05 - If Now Was Then 
 
Side B
06 - I Still Do 
07 - On & On & On
08 - Never Going Home 
09 - All The Same 
10 - Don’t Forget Me

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