favourite 2024 albums → DON'T FORGET ME by Maggie Rogers
“Some of the stories on this album are mine. And for the first time really, some of them are not. The moments that are mine feel like memories — glimpses from college, details from when I was 18, 22, 28 (I'm 29 now). In writing the album sequentially, at some point a character emerged. I started to picture a girl on a roadtrip through the American south and west. A sort of younger Thelma & Louise character who was leaving home and leaving a relationship, processing out loud, finding solace in her friends and in the promise of a new city and new landscape. I tried to capture her life with the intimacy of Linda McCartney's photographs, spontaneous and open and free. She's starting over, turning the page on a new chapter in her life."
One of the many many reasons I will never return is because they want me to die to myself (read: baptism and repentance). They want me to kill my identity and cut off my interests and drown parts of my personality and burn my “worldly” knowledge. They want me to finish destroying myself so my broken body can be forced into the mold of the “good” and faithful servant.