At his core, McLaughlin is a songwriter, an audible translator of experience from his small corner of the Universe, tethered to the ethers as much as his human vessel. Sewn throughout his newest batch of songs, the ten-track Midnight Hill, is the mourning within the inevitable winds of change through Self and family structures, the walking hand-in-hand with one’s own inner child, and at the end of it all, coming to a place of peace with how things are Now.
A multi-instrumentalist and audio engineer, he self-produces the songs he has written within the meditative state, weaving together gentle, melodic thoughts of self- and environmental-dissection with organic production and instrumentation. Reminiscent of a time when vinyl was king, the final results extend an open hand to the listener to experience an authenticity, both internally and externally, that allows them to lovingly transcend to their own higher essence.
