Micah P Hinson and the Nothing

Micah P Hinson was born in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, into a strict Christian fundamentalist household. He began to experiment with music upon moving to Abilene, Texas in his teen.

In the relative isolation of this town, he became immersed in the local music scene. In 2003, he teamed up with the Texas collective the Earlies which provided a lush backdrop for Hinson's winsome tales of love, loss and regret, before releasing solo albums for Sketchbook, Jade Tee and Full Time Hobby.

Micah P Hinson and the Nothing, his first release on Talitres, is a collection of songs Micah wrote before a terrible van accident he had on the Spanish highway in 2011. Unsure if or when his arms would ever work properly again, Micah began listening to demos he has made before he went on that Spanish trip.

The songs took a different light and he began sending them off to people around the world (The Twilight Sad, his Belgium Quartet, his Texan side-kick, T Nicholas Phelps) and with their help he began to create a record without the use of his arms.

Soon after this, Micah was invited to go and record in Santander, Espana, at Moon River Studio. For two weeks and two days, Fernando 'Mac' and Micah realized what was to become Micah P. Hinson and The Nothing, working with an astounding array of local musicians, sitting behind the trap set, standing beside the upright bass, holding a viola, or tumbling away the tympani. Double LP with download code.