"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."
"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"
Tessa Rose Jackson's first album under her own name is rooted in warm folk guitar and time-travels from Bert Jansch to REM to Sharon Van Etten. The Dutch-British musician recorded previously as Someone and now delivers a rawer, richer fourth album made alone in rural France that digs into ancestry, mortality and memory. The Lighthouse opens with a title track built from perfect fifths, woodwind moans and rumbled percussion that frames a journey toward a beacon at high tide. Several songs confront the death of one of Jackson's two mothers and explore grief with inquisitive, poetic perspective. Poppier production lifts upbeat tracks while piano-led pieces showcase her assured, delicate voice. The result is a luminous rebirth.
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