The Daily Spin II

Maggie Rogers | Don't Forget Me

Welcome back to the Daily Spin. For the uninitiated, this is the series in which I review an album every day of 2025.

As was the case two years ago, my favorite song from each album can be found at the playlist linked here.

Album: Don’t Forget Me (2024)

Artist: Maggie Rogers

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For the longest time, Maggie Rogers was one of those ‘check a few songs out’ artists in my library - I rarely ever listened to her albums the whole way through, but the few songs that I did have in my rotation tended to get a lot of airplay whenever I was feeling that sort of melancholy that is nailed through every song that she puts out.

I took a look at Heard It In A Past Life a couple years ago for the first iteration of this project, but Don’t Forget Me missed the boat for inclusion by a couple months. When ‘The Kill’ landed 22nd on my ‘top songs 2024’ playlist (lower than I would have had it, honestly, I thought it was gonna be comfortably top 10), I knew it was a must-include.

Strangely enough, for all the airplay ‘The Kill’ got, I never really got around to fully diving into the album. What a miss on my part - listening through, you get the immediate sense of an assured creator. Rogers knows herself and her strengths now, and it shows in every artfully-placed note. She’ll never really be a power-ballad artist, but her emotive vocals are perfect for the driving guitar tracks that lie throughout this album, interstates to the heart.

Even the ‘missteps’ just feel out of place more than they sound poor - and though many have critiqued the mix here, I think it works well as a versatile conductor. On an album where Rogers is a country crooner, a Fleetwood Mac impersonator, a soft pop girlie, and an indie darling, you need something that can play to each of those strengths in turn, and seeing how this album does all of that is remarkable.

Rating: 9/10

Best Tracks: The Kill, On & On & On, Don’t Forget Me

Worst Tracks: Drunk