Dead of Night

"Dead of Night" is track one of Pony, 3:59, written by Peck. Sub Pop and Northern Transmissions call it a torch song about two hustlers traveling through the Nevada desert, and Peck's own description for Nylon in October 2017 was: what starts as whirlwind romance in the desert, ends in tragedy and then the vague memory that remains a dream. He told Teeth in 2019 that it is about unrequited love, falling for someone who loves you back but not as you want. Wikipedia dates the single to January 16, 2019, but the video appeared on Nylon in October 2017, so it clearly predates the single; KEXP made it a Song of the Day on April 4, 2019.

The video, directed by Michael Maxxis and shot in Nevada, was filmed on 16mm with strong colors to contrast the desert and the outcasts, he said. Hot Press called it the haunting opening number, The Line of Best Fit heard a faint percussive tambourine rattlesnake and a solitary allure, and Saving Country Music, despite its negative review of the album, wrote that the chorus is as voluptuous and enthralling as you will find in all of music. He played it on CBC Radio One's Q in June 2019 and on Jimmy Kimmel Live on January 29, 2020, his US late-night television debut, where Stereogum's Tom Breihan heard a tender ballad on a Be My Baby drumbeat.

Search summaries of Tunefind list it in Euphoria, Agatha All Along, Cheaters and The Hunting Wives. We found no setlist.fm count, no covers, and could not tell which version our upload is.