Micah Bounds has been quiet, and that silence was intentional. The Gateway City's very own singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist is stepping back into the spotlight with Waiting Here, a single dropping on April 17th, and it carries weight that only comes from an artist who has taken his time. This is Micah arriving with a clearer sense of who he is and exactly what he wants to say.
Two years ago, he released Mark Every Miracle, a nine-track album that introduced him as a producer-first artist with a cross-genre sensibility. Bluegrass, gospel, and R&B folded together with a confidence that felt out of place for someone so early in his career. Hey! and the title track were songs that made some stop and look up the artist's name. The record moved with bright, layered energy. It was not a quiet statement. But Waiting Here is something different, and that shift is the whole point.
The new track is warmer, smoother, and more patient in its pacing. A soul-funk groove that locks in and holds. Where the Mark Every Miracle sessions showed an artist staking out territory across multiple sounds, Waiting Here narrows the focus. Micah produced it himself, and the production reflects a writer who has grown into his instincts. The song was originally written during his high school years. It was, in fact, the first track he ever put on streaming platforms. But the version arriving this month has been rebuilt from the ground up. There’s something in it worth revisiting, and the result is an artist owning a piece of his own history on his own terms.
Micah grew up around guitars and folk music, moved into gospel and jazz through church performance, then studied music composition and cello at the university level. That combination, folk roots, gospel instincts, and classical training, has always been present in his work, but rarely announced. It operates underneath the surface, informing choices that most listeners could not explain but would immediately notice. On Waiting Here, that foundation is what gives a three-minute soul track a sense of space and economy that most producers in the genre are still working toward.
Waiting Here is part of a larger chapter just beginning to unfold. Micah is building toward an EP slated for August, with another release planned for June. There is a music video accompanying this single, and the direction of each project suggests an artist not simply filling a release schedule but following a specific artistic thread with purpose. He has always been candid about seeing himself as a producer and writer first, and Waiting Here makes that case.
The single is tagged as pop, soul, and funk, with Daniel Caesar as a reference point, and that comparison holds in spirit. There is the same attention to vocal warmth and understated production, the same willingness to let a song breathe. But Micah is working from a place distinctly his own, shaped by the city, by gospel harmonies, by years of compositional study, and by the personal history that only ends up in music when an artist is willing to go back and look at it honestly.
Waiting Here arrives April 17th, alongside its music video. If the track hits the way it should, it will leave you with one question: Have you ever cared about someone enough to step back, stay quiet, and wait, knowing full well they might never turn around?
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