Sunday Music: Maggie Rogers

January 20, 2019

What feels like a long time coming, we finally got the full length Heard It In A Past Life from Maggie Rogers. A little bit folk, a little bit pop, a lot of bit mood and vibe heavy, this album feels like it’s going to grow on me more over time.

“On + Off” was released on the earlier EP but makes for a good entry point if you haven’t tried her yet. Playing with metaphors about the ocean and her emotions, which swell, drift and turn her “on and off,” it’s a beautiful non-resolving exploration of relationship dynamics. Lyrics like this are a good example of her poetry that shows up across the entire record:

Take me through this wild tide

Stay with me through all of time

If I’m drenched in madness, tangled blues

Won’t you?

Oh, won’t you?

Take me to that place where you always go

When you’re sleeping or your day takes you low, so low

When I’m on and off again

On and off again

On and off again, oh

https://youtu.be/cdIBxhONpC0

Give the whole album a shot.