Margo Price has announced a new addition to her 2023 album Strays. Out in full on October 13, Strays II expands the original LP with nine new songs that will arrive in the form of three distinct acts, each telling its own unique story of love, grief, and acceptance. On Act I: Topanga Canyon—available now via Loma Vista Recordings—Price is joined by Strays producer Jonathan Wilson, as well as new collaborators including Buck Meek of Big Thief and songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Ny Oh.
Recorded at Wilson’s Topanga studio during the same sessions as the rest of Strays—and also partially written amidst the six-day psilocybin trip that Margo Price and her husband Jeremy Ivey took the summer prior—all three acts of Strays II further complement the initial album from earlier this year.
Regarding the new single “Strays,” Price wrote: “The title track is the story of how my husband Jeremy 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.’”
Check out the Jonathan Wilson and Buck Meek–featuring “Malibu” below, and pre-order Strays II here.
