New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Today, GRAMMY Award-nominated producer/ songwriter/ performer
Maggie Rogers shared her new single, "Want Want" - a big, bracing celebration of the irresistible pull of desire. She teamed up with Kid Harpoon and Del Water Gap to produce the track, which was recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City,
Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios near Bath, England and Sid's Palace in Scarborough, ME. The song was originally written in quarantine with Del Water Gap in
Maine and brought to its full form with Kid Harpoon in NYC and Bath.
Filmed at a karaoke bar in NYC's Koreatown, Rogers performs "Want Want" with raw abandon in the official video. The energy builds as the sinuous verses give way to the frenzied chorus and she's joined by her band and a growing, grooving crowd. The clip was directed by Warren Fu who also collaborated with Rogers and director Michael Scanlon, on the visual for her previous single, "That's Where I Am."
"Want Want" is from Rogers' new album, Surrender, which will be released on July 29 by Capitol Records / Universal Music. Fans who pre-order the digital album will instantly receive "Want Want" plus "That's Where I Am." View the official video for "That's Where I Am," which features cameos by
David Byrne, Quil Lemons and Hamilton Leithauser.
NPR said, "'That's Where I Am'…is a chunky-boot strut through a floral pop fantasia. Stuttering electronics and handclaps underpin the momentum that builds through the song's first minute, but then Rogers opens a floodgate of sleek guitar distortion, bassy synth and gated reverb on crashing drums. The overall effect has major '90s Alterna-Rock Chick
Energy - crunchy production, big guitars, swirling but sturdy motion, restless and unafraid emotion. Rogers, in a chill performance that pushes her voice to stadium-rocking levels, is more than up to the task. She's having an absolute blast…" PAPER noted, "Maggie Rogers' long-awaited return is a crunchy, electronic piece of pop-rock…as thrilling as anything from her debut album."
In early 2020 - after multiple sold-out headline tours and major festival performances in support of 2019's Heard It in a Past Life, which entered Billboard's Top Album Sales chart at No. 1, landed her a nomination for Best New Artist and went on to amass over one billion combined global streams - Rogers retreated to the coast of Maine. Channeling the ocean's unruly energy, she soon arrived at the controlled chaos and ecstatic physicality that would come to define Surrender. Over the course of 12 unfettered yet exactingly crafted tracks, Rogers fully captures the frenetic intensity of the last two years of her life, bringing her bracing honesty to stories of anger and peace and self-salvation, transcendence through sex and freedom through letting go.
