Brody Price / Aunt Kelly

Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+Spanning more than 3 years of rehearsal and writing, Brody Prices new album, Win a Trip to Palm Springs, is a dark oasis of gentle brutality and well thought out chaos. Price himself refers to this album, with an almost patented tongue-in-cheek wisdom, as Doom Country. The songs here are as devastating as they are beautiful, embracing Prices evolutionary path into becoming a human with a license to be angry, hopeful, and fully himself. Vacillating between moments of perfect folk gentility, weighty sludge metal, noise rock mayhem and various other genre dalliances, WATTPS dodges any pigeon-holed section of the record store. Born out of Prices own internal tension, and coupled with a growth mindset sharpened by therapy, this album studies the macro and micro of loss, identity, ache and want. But for Price, studying is not enough. This album is equal parts cutting cathartic, or as Price puts it: these songs find the knot and try to get it to come loose. Honest joy shares a table with unsterilized darkness in WATTPS, and the result is an impressive and authentic debut album.Recorded in 6 cities across 3 states, WATTPS is the sonic lovechild of Brody Price and long-time friend and collaborator Marshall Pruitt. We made everything together, Price says. This album is so special because instead of sounding like an impersonation of someone else, it sounds like my friends and I. Case in point, laced throughout the track list youll find vocal and instrumental appearances by Prices heroes and pals like John Paul White (The Civil Wars), Robert Ellis, Will Johnson (Centro-matic), and Andy Baxter (Penny Sparrow). Making this record over the chaotic quarantine years afforded Price what he called the one place where I could process what was happening in the world.From the raucous Dying When I Met You (the albums first foyer into Dinosaur Jr. cacophony), to the saloon-drunk Love I Hope You Stay (where we see Price painted in a beautiful shade of John Prine blue) and all the way to the final track Waltz (where Price claims that all of the flavors of the record can be found in one place) this album stuns and heals.Everybody loves vacation, Price says. Its a place where you can rage, find peace, maybeescapeand thats what Palm Springs feels like to meno matter who you are, youre accepted and cool. For Price, Win a Trip to Palm Springs is the embodiment of feeling at home in hisown emotional and musical skin. For us as listeners, if we truly lean in, well see that weve been invited on the same vacation.

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