Dallas, Texas-based experimental rock artist Brody Price recently signed with Niles City Records for his upcoming full-length label debut, Win A Trip To Palm Springs!, which is due out on October 28. The 10-song set vacillates between moments of polished folk songwriting, weighty sludge metal, alt-country twang, and noise rock mayhem, with the new single “Satellites & Dust” leaning heavily toward the latter.

Of “Satellites & Dust,” Price offers, “Tracy K. Smith has a collection of poems called ‘Life on Mars’ that has been pretty monumental in my life. The same way that the works of folks like Denis Johnson or Mary Oliver or Anthony Bourdain have been. It’s all about perspective and I guess that’s such a big theme of this record and why I love the earth and planetary sciences so much. This song is inspired by that whole ‘Life on Mars’ collection but especially one called ‘Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?’ When I think about the size of the universe and all the other suns and stars and galaxies out there it causes the clash of the meaningless and miraculous. There’s a Joe Pera quote that I love where he discusses Stephen Hawking cheating on his wife… and although cheating is horrible, it could be easy to understand how Hawking, who spent his life thinking about how small we are in comparison to the expanse of the universe, could feel like his actions don’t matter. He says, ‘If one guy cheats on his wife what’s the big deal? Thinking further down the same line of thought, however, if we’re so tiny and insignificant, if you’re able to find one person in the entire universe who cares about you, why would you want to disappoint them?’”

In celebration of Win A Trip To Palm Springs!, Price will play a hometown album release show in Dallas, TX at Ruins on October 27. Win A Trip To Palm Springs! is available for pre-order now via Price’s website.

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