''Don't Forget Me'' is the third studio album by American

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singer-songwriter

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. It was released on April 12, 2024, through Debay Sounds and

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Background

Rogers first performed songs from the record at tour stops on her 2023 tour supporting her second studio album '' Surrender'' (2022). Rogers co-produced the album herself with additional assistance from

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at the

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. The singer-songwriter wrote eight of the ten songs with Fitchuk, while two are entirely self-penned. In a letter, she announced her goal to have been the creation of a record that was akin to a "Sunday afternoon". On January 1, 2024, she previewed a snippet of a song titled "Don't Forget Me" with a caption saying "see you in 2024". The eponymous lead single was then released alongside the album announcement on February 8, 2024. To Rogers, the song signifies a "rough journal entry" about attending festivities from friends while she craves "simple baselines" and finds herself "in a different place in erlife".

Reception

''Don't Forget Me'' released to critical acclaim.

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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, awarded the album an average score of 84 based on 16 critical reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave the album a 7.9 out of 10 based on their collected reviews.

Track listing

Personnel

Musicians *

– lead vocals (all tracks), keyboards (tracks 1, 4, 5), bass (1), piano (6) *

– bass (all tracks), acoustic guitar (tracks 1–5, 7–10), drums (1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8), electric guitar (1–5, 7, 8, 10), keyboards (1–5, 7, 8, 10), piano (3, 9, 10), percussion (3, 10) *

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– electric guitar (tracks 1, 8) * Nora Neil – vocals (track 1) * Isadore Blue Lovett – voice (track 1) Technical * Maggie Rogers –

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– production *

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– mastering *

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– mixing * Konrad Snyder –

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* Carl Bespolka – engineering (tracks 1–6) * John Rooney – engineering (tracks 7–10) * Josh Moore –

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* Ian Gold – mixing assistance * Lauren Marquer – engineering assistance * Michael Dean – engineering assistance * Dani Perez – engineering assistance (tracks 1–6) * Jack Manning – engineering assistance (tracks 7–10)

Charts

References

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