Orville Peck Announces New EP Appaloosa: Hear “Drift Away”

Orville Peck might be preparing for his EGOT. Earlier this year he played the Emcee in Cabaret on Broadway, and he’s starring in the Kitao Sakurai-directed Street Fighter with 50 Cent, Jason Momoa, and Noah Centineo. Today, he’s pivoted back to music with the announcement of a new EP Appaloosa, out in two weeks via Warner. The mysterious country crooner also shared the lead single “Drift Away.”

On “Drift Away,” tendrils of twangy guitar spiral around Peck’s meandering vocals. He sounds really good! The track builds into an anthemic ’80s country ballad. “Watch the kids ridin’ shotgun roads, in ’21 all the movies closed, high and dry they got nowhere else to go,” he sings at the opening. He conjures an innocent unease and yearning later on the chorus: “It’s not about gettin’ out, it’s about lettin’ go, don’t ya know? Drift away with me, drift away with me.”

Listen to “Drift Away” below.

TRACKLIST:
01 “Dreaded Sundown”
02 “Drift Away”
03 “Atchafalaya (ft. Noah Cyrus)”
04 “Maybe This Time”
05 “Oh My Days”
06 “My Side Of The Mountain”
07 “It’s The End Of The World”

Appaloosa EP is out 11/14 on Warner Records.