Orville Peck was one of the most unique artists of 2019. Performing under a fringed leather mask, and overlapping the genres of country, indy rock, shoegaze and electronics, no one could match Peck's odd sound. Pony earned him a lot of play on campus radio as well as more adventurous ends of the country music radio spectrum. His real identity is a mystery; he says he wears the mask because he is a well known name in the music industry in Toronto, and wants to separate his Peck persona from his own identity to carve out his own musical space. Peck is hard to put into a category. Ostensibly, this is a country album, a brooding one that only tangentally addresses country, with banjo and steel guitar floating in and out of the music. But it's not solidly in that camp, with shoegazing indy rock taking most of the rest of his sound. It's a tough album to get, but when you do, you'll get it full on.
