The Best country on Bandcamp: July 2022
In at least one of his official promotional photos, Arlo McKinley is wearing a YOB T-shirt. This is instructive—not because the Cincinnati singer-songwriter’s downcast tunes sound anything like the Oregon trio’s towering doom metal, but because both seem to spring from deep within life’s darkest corners in search of light, hope, and redemption. McKinley’s third album This Mess We’re In was written and recorded after the death of his mother and his best friend, and you can hear the ache echoing through its 11 songs. “I will follow where this goes,” he sings in the title track, “and in this mess, we’ll rest and find ourselves a home.”
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