Pony
by Orville Peck
  • Record Label: Sub Pop
  • Release Date: Mar 22, 2019
User Score
8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 30 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 30
  3. Negative: 2 out of 30
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  1. loserphilly
    May 31, 2019
    9
    Probably the most interesting album I’ve listened to in a while. An interesting but effective mashup of Johnny Cash style ballads and 80s era alternative pop, with a splash of modern dream pop. “Turn to Hate,” for example, reminds me of Hoodoo Gurus. Guitar riffs on many songs echo Chromatics. Beautiful album.
  2. Jheath56
    Nov 3, 2019
    10
    Peck’s vocal range is the most impressive music moment of 2019, hands down. His whistling, crooning, and warbling is what makes Pony an unforgettable debut.
  3. brockcheese
    Aug 19, 2020
    8
    Orville Peck brings a sensitivity to country music that seems to have been long gone. He hearkens back to earlier days of Country like Cash and Elvis.
  4. PeterSant
    Mar 26, 2020
    10
    With sensuality and Orville Peck presents one of the best in country music of the past few years. A revelation that came with an incredible voice and compositions that need no comment.
  5. Ibn_G
    Mar 30, 2019
    7
    Really interesting new artist. He has a really decent voice but is at times a little bit thin. I wish he would branch out more it something like rock n' roll but I guess he will just to country music. And I really wish the song "Old river" was a full length song. The record was alright but because of his potential I will give him a 7.
  6. mrhardusstan
    Aug 13, 2020
    10
    Mr. Peck gives us an album with Norman F****** Rockwell level songs. I am saluting.

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Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Austin Chronicle
    Oct 10, 2019
    67
    Armed with a gorgeous warble that sounds like a gothic Chris Isaak, Peck soars over the sparse arrangements, which prove a natural complement to all the reverb, tremolo, and twang.
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  2. Clash Music
    Apr 1, 2019
    80
    What Peck provides on Pony is music framed in that mould, and in doing so offers a brilliant palate cleanser to the vast majority of overblown, raucous and vapid compositions that have taken over the genre over the course of the last three decades or so.
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  3. AllMusic
    Mar 22, 2019
    80
    With Pony, Orville Peck could probably get over on sheer audacity, but his talent is as impressive as his ideas are smart and unexpected, and this is one of the best and most fascinating debuts from an alt-country adjacent artist in a very long time.
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