“Dying When I Met You”, the latest hard-rockin ‘freak folk single from Dallas, Texas-based Brody Price is a refreshing take on the oftentimes messy mash-up of rock and country. Showcasing Price’s self-described “doom country” style, the track features pedal steel swells and a honky tonk bridge colliding with revved-up guitar and vocal stylings of Built to Spill and Dinosaur Jr. It’s an exciting preview of what’s to come on Price’s upcoming genre-melding album Win a Trip to Palm Springs! due out Oct. 28, 2022.
“Growing up in a sheltered conservative household and dealing with mental health issues throughout his youth, it was a geological expedition in Joshua Tree and the Mojave Desert spent researching 70 million-year-old magma bodies (as well as his free time in the nearby Palm Springs area) that shaped who Price is today and the music he’s making. Of the experience and the impact it had on the upcoming record, Price offers, “Being out there for the first time was so cathartic. I couldn’t believe that I was this kid from south Texas that had ended up working with folks from all over the world in one of the most other-worldly places I’d ever seen. Just because I wanted to. Not because it was going to make my parents happy or make a lot of money. I just went because I wanted to learn. I was so far away from my ‘old life’ and the expectations of other people. Away from the whole ‘you’ve gotta dress like this, behave like this, vote like this, pray like this.’ It was just totally freeing. The more time I spent out there the more I realized that the same sense of freedom and solitude that attracts me to that region attracts so many other folks. My hope is that this record could be that place for folks: rest, escape, joy, mourning… basically a place that can morph into whatever you need at the given time,” describes Price.
