Tessa Rose Jackson - The Lighthouse (2026) [Hi-Res]

Dutch/British singer/songwriter Tessa Rose Jackson charts a course through grief, identity, and the stories that guide us back to ourselves, writes Kayla Sandiford.

Positioned at the edge of a coastline, isolated within a wall of stone, a lighthouse stands as a lone beacon, its powerful beam cutting through its misty surroundings to mark safe passage for weary travellers. On her third album, The Lighthouse, Dutch-British singer-songwriter and composer Tessa Rose Jackson looks to this navigational aid to find light in a perceptibly dark place — death. “I always say, it’s an album about death, but not in a really depressing way,” Jackson tells me. Rather, The Lighthouse explores death as a celebration of life, an act of “embracing fears, identity, and the stories we inherit.”