After the smash hit of her debut, Heard It In A Past Life (2019), Maggie Rogers moved to the Maine coast to listen to the ocean. She sings about herself that she is like falling water. You can feel that on their second album: Rogers’ singing flows and is only committed to this flow.
But there is something else in their new songs: a great, irrepressible power. In “Want Want”, for example, which adds something very muscular to the happiness-drunk love of songs like “Light On”, or in “Anywhere With You”, whose arena-sized longing the Killers could also conjure up.
Above all, this extraordinary voice pities, yearns and feels, mixing classic folk expression with modern pop sound. light on
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