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On the album cover of Heard It in a Past Life, Maggie Rogers looks at us as she lets a large red sheet float in the air, preparing to wrap us in her scarlet love. Through this symbolic gesture, the singer protects an audience that in turn protects her from the dark side of the limelight. The dazzling fame that the singer has recently become familiar with is precisely the subject of this debut album. In 2016, Maggie Rogers blew up the charts with her single Alaska, which (of course) we find on Heard It in a Past Life, alongside her other single Light on. The latter evokes the contradictory feelings that come with this flashy glory – on the one hand, there’s the anguish of being swept away, even destroyed, by a wave that you can’t always control. But on the other, there’s the joy brought by a benevolent audience. The same is true on Burning, in which the young woman from Maryland describes the tiring lifestyle that fame brings: "I've been sleeping/Barely dreaming/Through one year and one half." There’s an element of Judy Garland in Pharrell Williams' protégée, both in her complex relationships with success as well as in her vibrant voice.
Perfectly reflecting Rogers' personality at this moment in time, the album is often energetic (with beats that get you up and dancing) yet displays an underlying melancholy. In Past Life, this sadness is explicitly expressed through her beautifully soft vocals. "Maybe there's a past life coming out inside of me", she sings – there’s a nostalgia for life before her success that she wants to keep hold of, so as not to lose control. In Retrograde, she even leans towards a regressive feeling. Perhaps this success came too soon, as she seems to admit on Say It. But in the final song, she emphasizes this vital force that never completely leaves her (Back in My Body). Generally speaking, the "positive melancholy" that characterizes Maggie Rogers on this album has the merit of making people dance while being highly introspective. © Nicolas Magenham/Qobuz
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John Hanes, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Greg Kurstin, Producer, Drums, Engineer, Guitar, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist, Bass (Vocal) - Serban Ghenea, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Emily Lazar, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nate Albert, A&R - alex pasco, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Julian Burg, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maggie Rogers, Producer, Percussion, Additional Producer, Vocals, Clapping, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Chris Allgood, Assistant Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Elizabeth Isik, A&R Admin - Erynn Hill, A&R
℗ 2018 Debay Sounds LLC
John Hanes, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Greg Kurstin, Producer, Drums, Engineer, Keyboards, Synth Bass, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Serban Ghenea, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Emily Lazar, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nate Albert, A&R - alex pasco, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Julian Burg, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maggie Rogers, Producer, Co-Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Chris Allgood, Assistant Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Elizabeth Isik, A&R Admin - Erynn Hill, A&R
℗ 2019 Debay Sounds LLC
John Hanes, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Greg Kurstin, Producer, Drums, Engineer, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist, Bass (Vocal) - Serban Ghenea, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Emily Lazar, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nate Albert, A&R - alex pasco, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Julian Burg, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maggie Rogers, Producer, Piano, Additional Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Chris Allgood, Assistant Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Elizabeth Isik, A&R Admin - Erynn Hill, A&R
℗ 2019 Debay Sounds LLC
TONY MASERATI, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Zach Hancock, Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nate Albert, A&R - Tyler Scott, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maggie Rogers, Producer, Performer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Doug Schadt, Composer, Producer, Recording Engineer, Programming, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Elizabeth Isik, Unknown, Other
℗ 2016 Debay Sounds LLC
John Hanes, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Greg Kurstin, Producer, Drums, Engineer, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, Bass (Vocal) - Serban Ghenea, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Emily Lazar, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nate Albert, A&R - Tom Hull, ComposerLyricist - Kid Harpoon, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Piano, Drum Programming, AssociatedPerformer - alex pasco, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Julian Burg, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maggie Rogers, Producer, Percussion, Additional Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Chris Allgood, Assistant Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Elizabeth Isik, A&R Admin - Erynn Hill, A&R
℗ 2018 Debay Sounds LLC
Emily Lazar, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tom Elmhirst, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Nate Albert, A&R - Chandler Harrod, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maggie Rogers, Producer, Piano, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Chris Allgood, Assistant Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Elizabeth Isik, A&R Admin - Erynn Hill, A&R
℗ 2019 Debay Sounds LLC
John Hanes, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Serban Ghenea, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Emily Lazar, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nate Albert, A&R - Ricky Reed, Producer - Tor Miller, ComposerLyricist - Maggie Rogers, Producer, Engineer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Ethan Shumaker, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Allgood, Assistant Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jack Hallenbeck, Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Elizabeth Isik, A&R Admin - Lucio Westmoreland, Producer, Additional Producer - Erynn Hill, A&R
℗ 2019 Debay Sounds LLC
TONY MASERATI, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Zach Hancock, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nate Albert, A&R - Tyler Scott, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maggie Rogers, Producer, Programming, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Doug Schadt, Producer, Programming, AssociatedPerformer - Elizabeth Isik, Unknown, Other - Nicholas Das, Producer, Recording Engineer, Programming, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2017 Debay Sounds LLC
Rostam Batmanglij, Producer, Piano, Recording Engineer, Drum Programming, Shaker, Synthesizer Programming, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, 12-String Acoustic Guitar, ComposerLyricist - Emily Lazar, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tom Elmhirst, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Nick Rowe, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nate Albert, A&R - Maggie Rogers, Producer, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Chris Allgood, Assistant Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brandon Bost, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Elizabeth Isik, A&R Admin - Dalton Ricks, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Erynn Hill, A&R
℗ 2018 Debay Sounds LLC
John Hanes, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Greg Kurstin, Producer, Drums, Engineer, Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist, Bass (Vocal) - Serban Ghenea, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Emily Lazar, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nate Albert, A&R - alex pasco, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Julian Burg, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maggie Rogers, Producer, Percussion, Additional Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Chris Allgood, Assistant Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Elizabeth Isik, A&R Admin - Erynn Hill, A&R
℗ 2019 Debay Sounds LLC
John Hanes, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Serban Ghenea, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Emily Lazar, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Frederic, ComposerLyricist - Nate Albert, A&R - Ricky Reed, Producer - Maggie Rogers, Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Ethan Shumaker, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Allgood, Assistant Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Elizabeth Isik, A&R Admin - Erynn Hill, A&R
℗ 2019 Debay Sounds LLC
John Hanes, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Greg Kurstin, Producer, Drums, Engineer, Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Piano, Synth Bass, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Serban Ghenea, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Emily Lazar, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nate Albert, A&R - alex pasco, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Julian Burg, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maggie Rogers, Producer, Drums, Keyboards, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Chris Allgood, Assistant Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Elizabeth Isik, A&R Admin - Erynn Hill, A&R
℗ 2019 Debay Sounds LLC
Album review
On the album cover of Heard It in a Past Life, Maggie Rogers looks at us as she lets a large red sheet float in the air, preparing to wrap us in her scarlet love. Through this symbolic gesture, the singer protects an audience that in turn protects her from the dark side of the limelight. The dazzling fame that the singer has recently become familiar with is precisely the subject of this debut album. In 2016, Maggie Rogers blew up the charts with her single Alaska, which (of course) we find on Heard It in a Past Life, alongside her other single Light on. The latter evokes the contradictory feelings that come with this flashy glory – on the one hand, there’s the anguish of being swept away, even destroyed, by a wave that you can’t always control. But on the other, there’s the joy brought by a benevolent audience. The same is true on Burning, in which the young woman from Maryland describes the tiring lifestyle that fame brings: "I've been sleeping/Barely dreaming/Through one year and one half." There’s an element of Judy Garland in Pharrell Williams' protégée, both in her complex relationships with success as well as in her vibrant voice.
Perfectly reflecting Rogers' personality at this moment in time, the album is often energetic (with beats that get you up and dancing) yet displays an underlying melancholy. In Past Life, this sadness is explicitly expressed through her beautifully soft vocals. "Maybe there's a past life coming out inside of me", she sings – there’s a nostalgia for life before her success that she wants to keep hold of, so as not to lose control. In Retrograde, she even leans towards a regressive feeling. Perhaps this success came too soon, as she seems to admit on Say It. But in the final song, she emphasizes this vital force that never completely leaves her (Back in My Body). Generally speaking, the "positive melancholy" that characterizes Maggie Rogers on this album has the merit of making people dance while being highly introspective. © Nicolas Magenham/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:45:27
- Main artists: Maggie Rogers
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Capitol Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock Alternative & Indie
© 2018 Debay Sounds LLC ℗ 2019 Debay Sounds LLC
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