Happy Friday! Tancred has announced the surprise release of Nightstand (Acoustic) – a collection of intimately recorded demos that became the blueprint for singer/songwriter Jess Abbott's 2018 album Nightstand. Originally released on cassette as an exclusive memento for fans who pre-ordered the album, these recordings were lovingly remixed and remastered with the help of songwriter Jenny Owen Youngs and engineer Jett Galindo. Available now on all digital platforms. 

When Maine-based singer/songwriter Jess Abbott originally started writing her third album under the Tancred moniker, she was grappling with feelings of aloneness that floated to the surface in the wake of newfound confidence. It was during this nebulous time that allowed Abbott to reclaim and make space for the things that were lost somewhere along the way... personal connections, friendships, books, hobbies. In an effort to understand how the songs she wrote for Nightstand could best fit together sonically, Abbott systematically re-recorded each song's demo acoustically. Through this intimate process of documentation, she would ultimately connect with the songs, and herself. “I fell completely in love with the songs in a new way.”

Nightstand (Acoustic) is a collection of these initial ideas starting to take form – a personal look at the songwriter's process, and a beautiful foreshadowing of what would eventually become Nightstand. Detailing a personal memory, Abbott shares “My favorite little piece of the whole release is the sound of a snow plow going down my street, three stories below the bedroom where I wrote this album, during the biggest New England snowstorm of 2017.” As Abbott reveals, “That is the essence of Nightstand - a time and place where I would dip inside from a busy cycle of touring and socializing, isolate myself, listen to the world outside my window, and stare a bit too long at my nightstand, wondering what it would say if it could speak.”