Micah P Hinson
Texan alt country singer-songwriter Micah P Hinson has announced the first details of a new album, plus a free download and a run of European dates. ‘Micah and the Pioneer Saboteurs’ is the fourth full album and is set for release on the 21st June through Full Time Hobby.
Drenched in strings and desolation and inspired by the political changes in his native America, it’s Hinson’s most ambitious, fullest, grandest and most punishing recording yet, with instrumental beauty and words of brutal wisdom and bewilderment.
“The Pioneer Saboteurs are a set of individuals with their hearts set to rabid,” says Hinson. “We watch the world change, and we don't like what we see. The change only helps the ones on top. We stand up for the ones on bottom. The pioneer saboteurs ain't just a name for band. It's a fuckin' revolution, man. Who is willing to pick up their axes? Who is willing to draw their arms? Without folks doing this in the past, I ain't sure it would be a world I would recognize. Hell, sometimes I don't even recognize the one I live in now.”
Walt Whitman’s poem ‘Pioneers! O Pioneers!’ provided the inspiration, but America provided the context. Says Micah: “I tried to make sense of everything that’s happening over here…the death of the American dream on the coat-tails of the modern US of A. A citizen cannot be unaffected by the things that are happening around him. If he does not, he is not a citizen. So it’s that, mixed in with all the things I always sing of: love, relationships, and death.
“But I guess the point I try to get to all my songs and records is the fact that I want people to know they ain't alone in all this here mess we have. The world is on pins and needles, homes are burning to the ground, kids can't find their parents, tidal waves are blocking out the sun, tornadoes are hitting Los Angeles, and all the while The Great Magnet in the Sky is looking down, wonderin' what we are doing to ourselves."
Live dates
26th May - Full Time Hobby / LES INROCK night @ La Fleche D’Or, Paris
27th May – Ekko, Utrecht
28th May – Vooruit, Ghent
30th May - Beatlemania @ Reeperbahn, Hamburg
31st May – Trix, Antwerp
2nd June – Union Chapel, London
3rd June – Ruby Lounge, Manchester
4th June – Stereo, Glasgow