Margo Price Announces New Album Strays II, Shares New Songs

Margo Price has a new album, Strays II, arriving on October 13 via Loma Vista. It’s a companion to her January LP, Strays. Today, Price has shared a handful of tracks from the forthcoming project: “Strays,” the Ny Oh collaboration “Closer I Get,” and “Malibu,” which features producer Jonathan Wilson and Big Thief’s Buck Meek. Check out the new songs below.

Strays II is broken down into a trio of three-track acts: Topanga Canyon, Mind Travel, and Burn Whatever’s Left. Price recorded the material around the same time as the original Strays. Discussing “Strays” in a press statement, Price said:

The title track is the story of how my husband, Jeremy [Ivey], and I met and fell in love in Nashville two decades ago. I wrote most of the words and Jeremy wrote the chords and melody. It also reflects how we have always tried to stay true to who we are as people: “Love and pain it comes in waves but it was quite enough in those early days, we were wild as wolves my darlin’, we were strays.”

Regarding “Closer I Get,” Price remarked:

“Closer I Get” (co-written with Jeremy Ivey) was originally meant to open this double album with the line, “Being alive costs a lot of money but so does dying.” I’ve always thought it was unfair that the moment we are born, we immediately start racking up debt just for existing. This song was conjured from the ashes of our initial psychedelic trip—sometimes your perception and depth of field changes depending on where you’re at in life.