Country star Margo Price’s Strays is her most ambitious and evocative album yet.
Now four albums deep, Margo Price’s career already feels mythical. At 39, the singer-songwriter’s life - with its tragedy and hardscrabble Americana - reads like a classic country song. In fact, it already was one: was a blistering introduction, detailing her working-class roots, her bohemian struggle towards making art her life, the loss of one of her newborn twin boys in 2010, the tailspin into alcoholism that followed, and her resilience to keep going.
Throughout the album - Price’s most sonically enterprising to date, produced by Jonathan Wilson - Price is wide-eyed and engaged, outward-looking and empathic. And often, righteously furious.Been to the Mountain is a roaring opener: it’s psychedelic, slightly unhinged, drug-fuelled cosmic country, with Price’s vocals rising to an evangelical screech. “As I stare in the void of the black mountain vacuum, I know the scent of death like a perfume/ And no, this ain’t the end!” Price sings. If that’s not the right way to start 2023, I don’t know what is.County Road
, with its evocative lap steel and dramatic production, feels like a Springsteen fable by way of Stevie Nicks, all about small-town escape but an affinity with those left behind., a gothic character piece about a young woman waiting in an abortion clinic, feels prescient knowing the post-Roe v Wade realities around women’s bodily autonomy in Middle America.is another of Price’s best yet: soaring, romantic melodies fed by Price’s wrenching, emotional vocals.
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