Album · Orville Peck
Pony by Orville Peck
Pony is an album by Orville Peck, released in 2019. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 15 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Dead of Night”, on 9 lists with a best position of #23.
Pony, the debut album from masked South African country singer Orville Peck, came out on Sub Pop in March 2019, and it sounds like a honky-tonk jukebox left out in the desert to warp. The foundation is cowboy country, but goth, dream pop, shoegaze, surf rock, post-punk and gospel folk have all seeped into the grain, and Peck's deep, unhurried bass-baritone floats over it like he's crooning from a lonely motel room.
"Dead of Night" is the one that got under people's skin, a reverb-drenched, slow-rolling ballad, and "Turn to Hate" gallops along on a twangy, rockabilly-flavored beat. The record made the initial longlist for the 2019 Polaris Music Prize and picked up a Juno nomination for Alternative Album of the Year. The Show Pony EP followed.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Pony on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dead of Night | 9 | #23 | – | 2019–2026 | |
| 2 | Turn to Hate | 6 | #27 | – | 2019–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.