Vinyl love: Orville Peck “Pony”

(Vinyl Love is a series of posts that quite simply lists, describes, and displays the pieces in my growing vinyl collection. You can bet that each record was given a spin during the drafting of each corresponding post.)

Artist: Orville Peck
Album Title: Pony
Year released: 2019
Details: limited edition Urban Outfitters exclusive of 2000 copies on ‘orange red’ vinyl, poster

The skinny: We’re only just a few months removed from 2019 and yet, it feels so long ago. Thus, now feels like as good as time as any to revisit my favourite albums of last year and so that’s what I am going to do. Starting with my number five album, I am going to count them down again over the next bunch of weeks in this ‘Vinyl love’ space. I purchased this Urban Outfitters exclusive red-orange vinyl pressing of Orville Peck’s debut album, “Pony”, in December, but it had taken me the most of the year to gradually fall in love with it. Really, though, it was inevitable. As I said back in December: “A Lone Ranger mask with a long fringe, the ever present cowboy hats, and clothing that ranges from garish and sparkly to rough-hewn but slightly fey. He sings songs about cowboys with a voice Roy Orbison would be proud of, the whistles and plodding bass lines only slightly covering up that he is actually subverting the traditional idea of the cowboy.”

Standout track: “Dead of night”