Arlo McKinley, This Mess We’re InThe latest from the Cincinnati-based folk songwriter captures the extremes of the human experience, the highs and lows of being alive.

Arlo McKinley might be in his early forties, but the music he makes predates him by at least a couple of decades. Which is to say the Cincinnati native’s brand of country sounds like it could have been recorded in the genre’s heyday. Just listen to the lilting nostalgia of this new full-length’s second song, “City Lights,” which saunters along with a heavy heart that’s matched only by the graceful, uplifting twang of its melody. It’s pure, full-on melancholy, yet at the same time it’s anything but—a profound happy-sadness that captures the extremes of the human experience, the highs and lows of being alive.

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