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#21 | Maggie Rogers | Surrender
Debay/Capitol

With its lush, pulsing stadium sound, Surrender captures a shivering, sensual yearning for connection, the desire to experience packed, crowded humanity in glistening, sweaty, undulating Technicolor. It also crystallizes the deepened self-assurance one can hone through being alone.

There’s a new, husky maturity to Rogers’ delivery—a searing confidence; she embraces wholly the Stevie-ness she briefly flirted with in Heard It In A Past Life’s “Retrograde.” While Past Life is defined mostly by its breezy, earthy earnestness that holds a little bit back in the name of cool, detached observation, Surrender brings passion and wail. The overproduction that sometimes drowned out Rogers’ folk elements and ethereal vocals on her first album can’t be found on Surrender, and that’s because Rogers’ roar matches every stomping beat, bold synth and fiery riff. Surrender is much more rock ‘n’ roll. [Read Erika Wolf’s Review]

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