Listen to Maggie Rogers’ Stunning New Album Blood Ballet [stream]

The best music is the kind that originates deep inside the human body, drawn out and left in its truest form, carefully preserved for repeated enjoyment. This is what Maggie Rogers’ Blood Ballet sounds like, as she invites us to examine the basic elements that make us such fascinating creatures. Things like the beautiful intricacies of our blood and bones, our inclination to attach ourselves to another even when we should let go, and the way our minds turn memories over in our hands and long for them to take three-dimensional shape once more. With near sparseness, Rogers wields various instruments that lend themselves to barren folk songs with pop structures that ensure they echo long after the ten-track album ends. In such a superficial society of internet personas and plasticity, Blood Ballet is a gentle scream for authenticity — something we often don’t know we crave until it’s plucked from the earth and enjoyed, leaving us wondering how we ever did without it. We’re obviously excited to premiere an album that will move you and encourage you to savor the human experience, “a big mess of little joys”. Listen to Maggie Rogers’ Blood Ballet above.