Maggie Rogers joins Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 to speak about her forthcoming 2d album ‘Hand over’ due out this Friday. She tells Apple Music about the origins of the mission, recovering from burnout and finding pleasure in making music again, and balancing the importance of writing alone with the enjoyment of collaborating. She also discusses joining a secret songwriters community during the pandemic with Feist, Beck, and Mac DeMarco, collaborating with Jon Batiste, deciding to attend grad faculty, listening to her own music, and more.
Maggie Rogers Tells Apple Music About The Subject matters on Her New Album ‘Hand over’…
There was no public existence to jot down about. It’s about me and my fears and my savor existence and my chums and my anger and my pleasure.
Maggie Rogers Tells Apple Music About Recovering From Burnout and Finding Joy in Making Music Again…
I didn’t obtain to make music for a long time. I did, I was doing other things that I selected and cherished, however I was fairly tangled up by the point I’d been on tour for five years straight. By the point the pandemic happened I had persistent fatigue. I couldn’t talk. I hadn’t been to a grocery retailer in four years. I was ready to bite. And this story is the bite, however then after I hear back there’s so mighty pleasure. I think that’s the thing that surprised me more than anything, was that that was the place that I escaped to and it was the thing that became the way that I survived it or the way that I labored via it. This idea of pleasure as a fabricate of revolt, as something that can be radical and contagious and connective and angry. I think pleasure and anger are two aspects of the same coin, and the reason I delight in the enjoyment in this story after I hear it is far because I hear the grit, too. It feels hard obtained.
Maggie Rogers Tells Apple Music About Listening To Her Bask in Music…
As soon as it’s out, it’s no longer mine anymore. It’s gone. I generally by no means carry out, honest because … Well, I think before I by no means did, because I was always timid. I by no means had a moral abilities mixing and I was always panicked that I’d hear something and it was honest emotional. However I acquired to use sufficient time with this story that I’m honest admire really proud of it and I savor each 2d of it.I acquired to use the time I wished to really admire know and savor it, inside out. And so it’s no longer anxious for me after I hear it.
Maggie Rogers Tells Apple Music About The Importance of Having Intention…
I think that there’s really nothing more important than intention. Appreciate I want to hear art that feels admire any person cared and that’s what I’d savor to carry out. And it’s interacting with the realm in a way that is careful, as in with care. And I think that there may be nothing more that you can carry out in your art too, of honest admire making selections actively and thinking about them. I think a lot of that comes from having a sense of connection, whether or no longer it’s with admire the intention with which you development around a room or the way you create or the way you fabricate or join, honest join to folks you savor.
Maggie Rogers Tells Apple Music About The Origins of Her New Album ‘Hand over’…
I mean, generally having a very messy couple years, it leads to a great story. I was living alone in Maine for a long time and really thinking about, honest in the pandemic, what I wanted from music and what I wanted to create. And I started this story there and was really drawn to substantial drums and distorted guitar, because I missed music that made me really feel something physically. I missed the physicality of being at a festival, specifically admire British and European festivals. There’s something about … It’s a few of the handiest experiences I’ve had as a fan. Something about admire it being frigid and admire beer inebriated.
Maggie Rogers Tells Apple Music About The Importance of Making Music Alone and Creating Album Opener “Overdrive”…
It was the primary time I admire had a studio of my own basically, since excessive faculty. So I acquired to have a real admire creative practice again.Appreciate in all the craziness of the realm, being able to really admire play with something that … It also felt so admire physical and somatic, it was as if it may admire make my physique let walk of stress I was feeling. And then I brought that nucleus to Tom, to Real World, in the UK and he heard it and kind of admire exactly knew what to carry out. And the primary day, I sat down at a piano, he acquired on drums, and admire within two hours, Overdrive was finished. It was admire, “Okay, in heart-broken health, we’re off. Appreciate that’s the opening track. Let’s walk.” I really feel admire I acquired to head back to writing songs admire I did in excessive faculty, admire unguarded, no person was looking. I wasn’t making songs thinking about making them a story. Appreciate I didn’t make music the primary admire four or 5 months of the pandemic, and after I came back to it, it was admire, “Oh, admire after I’m bored, I savor making beats. Appreciate in heart-broken health.” It’s admire really playful, admire here is my favorite way to pass the time.
Maggie Rogers Tells Apple Music About Joining a Secret Songwriting Neighborhood During the Pandemic with Her Heroes Appreciate Feist, Damien Rice, Beck, Adam Cohen, Mac DeMarco, and More…
I was in this songwriting community over the pandemic with a bunch of artists. Feist, Damien Rice, Beck, Adam Cohen, Anaïs Mitchell, Mac DeMarco. We would write songs for a week at a time. Adam Cohen invited me, and I mean, there’s this amazing engineer named Phil Weinrobe who ran it. I spoke to all these folks before doing the album cycle to be admire, “What’s the public vibe on this?”I was invited to join this community. Each 5 or six weeks, we’d write a music a day. I mean, these are also my heroes. And I was the youngest in the community. And each morning, you’d obtain a SoundCloud link of all people’s songs, and I’m hearing unreleased songs from all my favorite artists, and I’d walk for a substantial walk, and then I’d be admire, “Okay. Time to indicate up. What am I going to expose in today?” And in case you pass over a day, you obtain kicked out. And some days, it may possibly honest be admire, “You all, I savor you. I can’t carry out it this week. I can’t touch it.” And all people may be admire, “Chilly, savor you. Contemplate you next time.” It was admire sworn to secrecy. I wrote probably a hundred songs. So what? 12 of us, 15 of us wrote. So ‘Varied Kind Of World’ and ‘Begging for Rain’ had been written in that, so those had been submissions for the songwriting community. And then, I was honest in really moral writing shape. And ‘Anywhere With You’, which is how this conversation started, was the primary music I wrote in Maine the place I was admire, “Oh, this feels admire the beginning of something.” And it was the primary music the place I started to gaze what it may be, what the story may be. It was the primary music I despatched a snippet of to my managers and was admire, “I’ve acquired something.”
Maggie Rogers Tells Apple Music About The Joy of Collaborating With Guests While Making ‘Hand over’…
And admire so mighty of this story too, admire I have three collaborators, moral? It’s admire Tom is the main one, and we admire really created a band collectively and admire touched each music. However the alternative, there’s a couple songs written with Del Water Gap, who was my band mate from once we had been 18, and a music I wrote with my buddy Gabe Goodman. And those songs had been written in Maine. Appreciate I had chums near in the summer season and after dinner we’d admire have a glass of wine and make music. And in that time, I basically made an total 2d story that will by no means near out. I wrote via all these items I wished to obtain out. And then, it was admire, “Okay, then what?” And then I made some music with my chums. It was honest so good.
Maggie Rogers Tells Apple Music About Collaborating with John Batiste…
A couple of these songs wished Jon. He’s also added some incredible piano to ‘I’ve Got A Friend’. I mean, we’ve been collaborators for 5 – 6 years now and he’s one among my deeply favorite folks to be around. He’s the handiest.
Maggie Rogers Tells Apple Music About Her Decision To Attend Grad Faculty…
I was admire, “It’d be really good to head to grad faculty. And it’d be really good to think about, as the realm is changing, what carry out I delight in? What does it mean to be an artist? What does that accountability to an audience? What are the ethics of vitality to maintain that space? How can you exhaust music as a instrument for peace? And what part of it carry out I delight in is my job, and what honest isn’t?” I really feel admire I signed up to be a musician. That’s honest who I am. And then, there’s all these things that near with it. And there’s a real inequity between vocation and occupation, and my professional existence asks things from me that all people’s does. No one’s job is ideal. And I think in case you can make your vocation your occupation, you’re in a really moral space. However how carry out I defend the vocation within it? And that is largely what I believed about there.
