maggie rogers

I like the album and I like her, but it's been hard to properly devote time to it given that Renaissance came out on the same day.

I'd group this with other vaguely-big-sounding-90s-alt albums that have come out this year - the new Soccer Mommy, Eliza and the Delusionals, Hatchie, beebadoobee - there are probably others I'm forgetting, enough to loosely classify as a trend I think.

Had hopes for this, but some of it is too alt pop-rock samey

Yeah, I'm having trouble getting into this too. On paper it sounds right up my alley, but it all kind of just washes by.

It's kind of monochromatic in a sense, but once you click to its frequency it's all great.

I feel like leaning on Kid Harpoon for the whole album did her few favors. He's a good fit for some of the songs, but I think some of the others could have benefited from other producers.

I like this album ok, but the production is very samey. Great for a song or two, but there's not enough variety to sustain a whole album.

That's Where I Am is a pretty bingeable single. That big '90s fuzzy bassline with bombastic drums really works for me.

otm re the production