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  • Jacob Collier Releases New Album “The Light For Days”

  • British singer-songwriter Jacob Collier released his sixth studio album “The Light For Days” on October 10, 2025.


    The album comprises 11 tracks, including the original 6 songs and 5 covers of James Taylor “You Can Close Your Eyes”, John Martyn “Fairytale Lullaby”, The Beatles “Norwegian Wood”, The Beach Boys “Keep An Eye On Summer”, and The Staves “Icarus”.
    Jacob Collier recorded and produced the album in only four days, with 5-string and 10-string signature Taylor acoustic guitars.
    Each song on the album is accompanied by a visualiser, filmed during on the DJESSE world tour, and celebrating locations of outstanding beauty in Brazil, France, Mexico, Peru and Curacao. Directed by Andre Tentugal and Jacob Collier. An animated video for “Keep An Eye On Summer” was animated by Dávid Pogran.
    For weekly live performance videos dropping on his YouTube page over the next couple of months.

    Jacob Collier said of the album, “Since completing the Djesse album series, my imagination has been brimming with all sorts of ideas of things I'd like to do and create. One of the things I've wanted to really focus on, and zone into, is the limitation of a single instrument. The acoustic-guitar sound world has been a foundational aspect of my music universe for as long as I can remember, and so I set myself the challenge of making a full-length album, using almost entirely the five-stringed guitar, in just four days. As a result I had to work so fast that I couldn't second-guess anything - I just had to roll with and trust the process. The results are warm, scrappy, imperfect, but very close to my heart. Djesse Vol. 4 took four years, so this was a severe limitation, but it was a really rewarding one. This is also the first album since In My Room that is 100% me.”
  • He continued, “The path of this record has taught me many things - to be gentler, to move with less judgement and some more ease, that sometimes the first thought is the most honest one. A reminder to follow the balloon... to relish in the wiggly, be scruffy with care. At its core, the album feels like an ode to softness... which, perhaps, is the truest form of strength. To be tough and brittle is to surely snap - but to yield and spring, bend and give, is to be alive. One of my favourite philosophers, Lao Tzu, speaks beautifully about water - how it's impossible to destroy; will only ever change shape... overcoming even the most immovable, rigid object with time. This album felt a bit like water to me - it softened me a great deal.”

    He added, “I decided to call the album 'The Light For Days' for three reasons. One, it's a lyric in 'Icarus', a gorgeous song by The Staves that I covered on the album, which has always captured my heart. Two, my four-day window felt ticklishly implied :-) And three... well, we all need some light in our days right now.”

    He said of the five-stringed guitar, “The feeling of this under my fingers became a deeply strong magnet for my music world. It really clicked, as it unlocked some of my 4ths-based language that was native to me as a bass player before that. There is slightly more breathing room around each string, which I love. The neck is incredibly ergonomic, and the controls are super-intuitive - even to a slight electric guitar novice like me!”


  • Jacob Collier explained some tracks for the album.

    “Heaven (Butterflies)”
    “Filmed in Costa Rica by André Tentugal in a single unforgettable day, filled with rainbows, butterflies and a lightning storm.”
    “Thank you so much to the Filarmónica De Costa Rica Orchestra for welcoming me with such immense energy and musicianship. It was the Costa Rican experience of a lifetime.”

    “Keep An Eye On Summer”
    “I have loved this song since the moment I first heard it as a youngster. It captures so beautifully that melancholic, earnest sophistication of The Beach Boys' early days – all that wonderful close harmony. On Summer Solstice last year, in June of 2024, I spontaneously decided to record a rendition of the song, for fun; it took me around four hours or so. This is it, in its rough, unfettered form. In lieu of Brian's passing a few months ago, it felt right to share it with the world, as an homage to him, as this summer comes to a close.”

    He said of the story of how this album came to be, “It's May 16th, 2025. I am a weekend away from embarking upon the Asian leg of the Djesse World Tour, and in the midst of all the preparation, for the first time in what feels like forever, I have a few days of quiet to myself. I have that special feeling that comes around every now and then - that I need to make something. But what to make? Since completing the Djesse series, I'd had various thoughts of things to pursue, but hadn't yet landed on any one thing in particular...

    That night, the idea strikes me to record a rendition of You Can Close Your Eyes (my personal all-time favourite James Taylor song) with voice and 5-string-guitar. I lay it down across the early hours of the morning - tumbly and rough around the edges - and it brings me solace. It's as the sun comes up that I have the thought... What if I were to make a whole collection of 5-string guitar songs like this, across the weekend?

    The next morning I set to work. I assemble a host of guitar-based ideas from the past few years' creative scrapyard. A few things exist almost intact (Keep An Eye On Summer; Sweet Melody; Thom Thumb); others are mere seedlings, to be grown. I also scrawl a list of guitar- friendly songs from a few of my favourite songwriters (The Beatles, John Martyn, The Staves) that I might
    include.

    I record almost exclusively on two microphones: my R88 MK3 ribbon mic (the glorious hiss) and U87 vocal mic (my noble steed) - each song as a live vocal-and-guitar take, which I decorate accordingly to varying degrees of spinkql. Having primarily layered each instrument & voice separately in the past piece by piece, this live-take format is in fact rather novel to me! I love the challenge. Only two songs are recorded to click-track; the rest are in abstract-time. There is quite a bit of imperfection around the edges - but I end up liking the feeling, so I let it be just so.

    At 11am on May 20th, still awake (just), I head to Heathrow and board my flight to Taipei, piecing together the ideas on the plane to form a tracklist. Over the following few weeks and months, the visual world of the album takes shape. I film little videos for each song, with the help of three of my wonderful fellow tourmates (Andre, Fran, Lou), across a host of cities across the tour, from Europe to South America. These miniature vignettes are filmed (with much joy) on a little Sony Handycam, and crafted in much the same spirit as the album: freewheeling, thoroughly unplanned and very much "following the balloon"! A handful are up right now on YouTube, one for each song - more are soon to come.”
  • source : Apple Music
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