Orville Peck praises “solitary power” of Lana Del Rey

nme.com:

“She has a real lonely melancholy solitary power" Orville Peck has opened up on his love of Lana Del Rey, claiming that the singer has a “solitary power” which he is able to widely identify with.

Peck, who is the star of this week’s NME Big Read, praised Del Rey when asked about the artists who are influencing his own sound at the moment. “She has a real lonely, melancholy solitary power, which essentially is a cowboy,” he said of the ‘Norman Fucking Rockwell’ singer. “That’s how I’ve felt my whole life.” Opening up on his other influences, Peck said: “I think there’s a lot of interesting stuff happening in pop music at the moment. “You have someone like Billie Eilish, which isn’t to my ears typical Top 40 music.