Orville Peck, Christopher Gold & the New Old Things

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Orville Peck

The never-absent fringed masks, the pseudonymous name, all the backstory speculation...none of it would be quite as much of a tempest if Orville Peck’s music wasn’t also intriguing. You might expect someone who gets signed to Columbia Records and releases a duet with Shania Twain to be country, and that’s part of the equation. But as with Twain there is a lot of rock in Peck’s music, along with some David Lynch-worthy reverb and noirish soundscapes; it all melds well into Peck’s evocative story-songs. Peck has the ear of indie music audiences, the songs to cross over to country, and the guts to cover Bobbie Gentry’s “Fancy,” so he may not be playing Sylvee-sized rooms for much longer. With Christopher Gold & the New Old Things.