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Don’t Forget Me Standard Vinyl is by Maggie Rogers. Now available from Vinyl Records Manchester on sale in stock and in a brand new condition priced at only £22 + delivery. February 8, 2024 Hollywood, CA GRAMMY Awardnominated songwriterproducerperformerMaggieRogerswill release Dont Forget Me, her third studio album, on April 12 via Capitol Records.I wanted to make an album that sounded like aSunday afternoon, explains Rogers in the letter below, which tells the story of the making of Dont 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 Didions 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 coproduced Dont 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 debutedDont Forget Me, The KillandSo Sick Of Dreaming during her soldout Summer of 23North American headline tour, which brought her to iconic venues such as Red Rocks and the Hollywood Bowl. Additional songs were previewed during last months listening parties, which celebrated the 5th anniversary of the release of Heard It In A Past Life, her 2019 debut album.Heard It In A Past Life entered Billboards 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 prodigyan artist whos in it for the long haul and Pitchfork noting, she sounds renewed, submitting to the pull of her heart without apology. Maggie Rogers on Dont Forget MeI have had so much fun at every stage of making this album. I think you can hear it in the songs. And Im finding its 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 Im 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 youngerThelma amp 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 McCartneys photographs, spontaneous and open and free. Shes 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 wasnt 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 wasnt 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 coproduced the album together, and he plays most of the instruments on the album. Hes 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 DMd him out of the blue wondering if hed be open to give it a shot. Im so grateful he said yes. These songs and session days are a record of our first time meeting in person, and its so exciting to feel that weve only just scratched the surface.Most of the performances youll hear are first takes. The recordings were initially a collection of demos to be rerecorded 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 werent trying to make an album.Theres a warmth toDont 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 Ive shown in public before. I wanted to make an album that sounded like aSunday 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 Didions 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 albums 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 friends039 weddings and feeling so happy for them, but also realizing that I039m very simply in a different place in my life. I039ve joked with my friends that it039s a song about having low expectations, but really I think it039s about craving simple baselines a good lover or someone that039s nice to me.When it comes down to it, our memories and relationships are all we have. I don039t 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 I039m standing at the end of my life, I hope a lifetime of accumulated love is what I039m 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 we039d all give up for love. I think it039s just about wanting our sacrifices or suffering to be meaningful. To have it all not be forgotten.Don039t forget me.This has been such a transformational and special time in my life. Im so grateful for many years of support and care Ive been offered to let me come to all of this in my way and in my time. I can honestly say Im more ready than I039ve ever beenand most importantly, Im having a blast. I hope you love this record as much as I do.. Vinyl Standard Me Forget Hit the Read More Button, for more track details and delivery information.