Jeremy Nail spends a great deal of time contemplating shadows, and he invites the listener to join in his gentle, inner-world ruminating on the subject with his latest offering, Fleeting Things, available on streaming platforms November 28, 2025.

Equal parts stark and atmospheric, this four-song EP captures the essence of the Austin-based artist’s songwriting. Stripped-down production underpins a lyrical exploration of life with shadows, bearing the ambivalence of resentment and resilience in the most human way.

Produced by Kyle Crusham (also credited with percussion and keyboards), Fleeting Things came together one afternoon in late 2023, with Nail (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals), Charlie Sexton (acoustic guitar), and BettySoo (vocals) gathered around a few microphones, recording live, using no headphones. Bonnie Whitmore (electric and upright bass) later added bass, anchoring the raw performance.

The EP opens with “Finally Free,” and the sparse instrumentation sets the stage for these songs’ oscillation between past and possibility. Done dwelling in endless shadows cast by old mythologies and the legends of other people, Nail opens the door to individuality.

“Dry River” returns to the weariness that inevitably follows trying, again and again, to live up to impossible expectations. Regardless of whether the expectations are actual or imagined, they drive a resentment that corrodes relationships.

“Before the Flood” counters with an offering of resilience. Though our minds can get caught in an eddy of past traumas and regrets, Nail reminds us that we can look up and live firmly in the present. “Life has a way of putting distance between you and that thing in your past,” he said, “you can choose to move forward.”

“Fleeting Things” concludes the record with a melodic, lilting guitar riff giving way to lyrics that speak a story less sweet. The song peers into the pain and the consequences of inexplicable weights people carry in forms like addiction and depression. Nail grapples to reconcile himself to the rifts created not just relationally between people, but between what time has been and what could be, if only the weight were lifted.