https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/24/arts/music/maggie-rogers-surrender.html
The video for the propulsive, synthy first single “That’s Where I Am,” with a bed of glitches and handclaps underneath Rogers’s clarion vocals about desire, pays tribute to that, as she catwalks through downtown Manhattan in a green boa, and piles into a cab with a New York crosscurrent — club kids and office workers. (The guitarist Hamilton Leithauser, the photographer Quil Lemons and David Byrne, who she cold-called to collaborate, show up too.)
Her musical process starts with making a mood board. “In production, I always think of records as world building — if I understand that, what the world is, it’s way easier for me to understand what the bass should sound like,” she said.
Kid Harpoon, the British producer, with whom she co-wrote her 2018 single “Light On,” remembered that the images for “Surrender” included black-and-white grittiness and ’70s New York
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 July 2022 12:15 (one year ago) link
surprised there's not much discussion of this here really because it seems like something people here should really like
― ufo, Monday, 15 August 2022 05:39 (one year ago) link
I haven't heard the new album yet, but everything I've heard by her previously has been underwhelming and stops this being a priority listen. On paper this is exactly my sort of thing but I find it hard to form any connection to what I've heard from her.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 15 August 2022 06:46 (one year ago) link
it's a bit of a shift from where she was before, it's a bigger & bolder sound, kinda late 90s heavily processed pop-rock? you'll know if you like it based on the singles
― ufo, Monday, 15 August 2022 07:48 (one year ago) link
I like the album and I like her, but it's been hard to properly devote time to it given that Renaissance came out on the same day.
I'd group this with other vaguely-big-sounding-90s-alt albums that have come out this year - the new Soccer Mommy, Eliza and the Delusionals, Hatchie, beebadoobee - there are probably others I'm forgetting, enough to loosely classify as a trend I think.
― monotony, Monday, 15 August 2022 08:19 (one year ago) link
Had hopes for this, but some of it is too alt pop-rock samey
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 August 2022 13:08 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I'm having trouble getting into this too. On paper it sounds right up my alley, but it all kind of just washes by.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
It's kind of monochromatic in a sense, but once you click to its frequency it's all great.
― braised cod, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
I feel like leaning on Kid Harpoon for the whole album did her few favors. He's a good fit for some of the songs, but I think some of the others could have benefited from other producers.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
I like this album ok, but the production is very samey. Great for a song or two, but there's not enough variety to sustain a whole album.
That's Where I Am is a pretty bingeable single. That big '90s fuzzy bassline with bombastic drums really works for me.
― The Ghost Club, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 10:47 (one year ago) link
otm re the production
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 14:12 (one year ago) link