Her uniquely candid music has drawn many fans. The album is transparent in a way that most music in Rogers’s genre is not. She confesses deeply personal and unglamorous feelings and accompanies these with a list of the literature that inspired her latest songs. She writes lyrics that are honest, full of tiny details that add up into a vivid stream of images. Vulnerability defines “Surrender.” The album is transparent in a way that most music in Rogers’s genre is not. Her list includes Thoreau’s Walden, Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, all placed right alongside Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch, a novel published just this year. Her sophomore album “Surrender” comes with a lineup of recommended books, ranging from classics to brand-new reads. But the indie-pop star Maggie Rogers is anything but conventional. Usually, we can only speculate as to the source material for our favorite songs, relying on the snippets that artists provide in their interviews. How many pop albums come with a reading list?
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