Maggie Rogers has confirmed that her second album, titled Surrender, will be released on July 29. The album will arrive three years after her 2019 debut Heard It in a Past Life with today's announcement accompanied by a trailer teasing new music. Check that out below.
Rogers career began with a viral moment in which footage of her playing breakout single "Alaska" while studying at NYU to an astounded Pharrell spread across the internet. She went on to release singles "Light On" and "Fallingwater," as well as collaborating with Phoebe Bridgers on an unlikely cover celebrating the end of Trump's time as President.
A press release states that Surrender was written after Rogers relocated to the coast of Maine and cut off the rest of the world to focus on "reading and resting and walking along the jagged cliffs, compelled by the fierce and unforgiving nature of the North Atlantic Ocean." The album was then recorded in three locations: Electric Lady Studios in New York, Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios near Bath in England, and her parents' garage.
A poem Rogers has shared alongside the Surrender trailer reads:
When I'm angry or in love, I feel it in my teeth. Strange harmonic buzzing. Cuts through my hands. My jaw. My breast bone. For a long time I fought it. Resisted. Held up my fists. 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. Do you fear what's underneath? Is your jaw wound tight? Do you ever want to bite? And what if you did? Sink your gums into a shoulder. Of a lover. Of a day. Of a year. We were 18. We were 23. I'm 27 now. Here's all I have. It's yours to take. Love. Hate. Anger. Feral joy. This is the story of what happened when I finally gave in.
