[dream-pop, indie-folk] (2026) Tessa Rose Jackson - The Lighthous...

    Tessa Rose Jackson – The Lighthouse (2026)

Review:
The warm sounds of folk guitar provide the roots of Tessa Rose Jackson’s first album under her own name, time-travelling from Bert Jansch to REM to Sharon Van Etten in every strum and squeak. The Dutch-British musician previously recorded as Someone, creating three albums in dream-pop shades, but her fourth – a rawer, richer affair, made alone in rural France – digs into ancestry, mortality and memory. The Lighthouse begins with its title track. Strums of perfect fifths, low moans of woodwind and thundering rumbles of percussion frame a journey towards a beacon at “high tide on a lonesome wind”. The death of one of Jackson’s two mothers when she was a teenager informs her lyrics here and elsewhere: in The Bricks That Make the Building, a sweet, psych-folk jewel which meditates on “the earth that feeds the garden / The breath that helps the child sing” and Gently Now, which begins in soft clouds of birdsong, then tackles how growing older can cosset the process of grief. Her approach to the subject is inquisitive, poetic and refreshing. Poppier production buoys this album’s spry limbs. Fear Bangs the Drum and Wild Geese play like confident cousins of singles by This Is the Kit or Aldous Harding, while Built to Collide, driven forward by percussive violin shivers and pacy drums, is catnip for radio. Jackson’s voice, assured but never smug, is captivating too, floating between delicacy and spirited sprechgesang. It’s most potent in simpler songs such as the piano-led Grace Notes, the final track Prizefighter, and the beautiful By Morning, led by an opening guitar melody that arrives like a Paul Simon classic. It’s a luminous rebirth. — Guardian

Track List:
01 - The Lighthouse
02 - The Man Who Wasn't There
03 - The Bricks That Make the Building
04 - Dawn
05 - Built to Collide
06 - Gently Now
07 - When Your Time Comes
08 - Fear Bangs the Drum
09 - By Morning
10 - Grace Notes
11 - Wild Geese
12 - Prizefighter


Media Report:
Genre: dream-pop, indie-folk
Origin: London, UK
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.3.0 (UTC 2013-05-26)


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