“Turn to Hate” - Orville Peck
Originally published by Alt Citizen
Damn. The guitar and vocal cadence of the intro to this song hit me like a kick in the gut, immediately recalling the opening riff of Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You” before barreling headlong into a kind of gothic country twang, the perfect jukebox selection for sad urban cowboys mixed up in an unrequited love affair with Bettie Page’s razor-blade bangs.
But when that cowpoke tips his hat back, he’s less Doc Holliday and more Holden Caulfield, a classic figure of newly minted jadedness caught in the bottom of a glass of rye whiskey where the bubbles in the ice form out a perfectly legible “fuck you.” It’s tragic, it’s beautiful, it’s instantly timeless.