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October 10, 2025 — Jacob Collier has released his new studio album - The Light For Days (Hajanga/Interscope/Fontana). Featuring six original songs and five handpicked covers of longtime idols and inspirations including James Taylor, The Staves, John Martyn, The Beatles and The Beach Boys, this collection captures the seven-time GRAMMY® winner at his most present and immediate, and centered around a single instrument: the guitar. Gone are the pressures to outdo himself and continue exceeding the infinite possibilities set by his previous project Djesse. The Light For Days is Collier freeing himself to be himself in his rawest, purest form.
In just one short year since closing the loop on the staggering universe of Djesse – the four-album, seven-year series that spawned hundreds of collaborations, hundreds of songs and hundreds of thousands of voices in song from around the world, The Light For Days has arrived.
Collier never anticipated when or how his next album would come, until it did. During a brief trip home to London, sitting in the same music room where his career began, surrounded by walls, shelves, desks and drawers full of instruments, he chose to explore his 5-string and 10-string signature Taylor acoustic guitars more fully than he ever had before. Through alternate tunings (“DAEAD”) and techniques, he trades scale for intimacy. Recorded and produced in only four days, The Light For Days reflects a core pillar of Collier’s artistry, offering a sonic counterpart to the moments in his live shows when everything falls away to just him and the music he loves.
Along with today’s album release, Collier has shared a new music video for the single “Heaven (Butterflies),” filmed in the biodiverse depths of Costa Rica. Watch Here: LINK. Previous videos include “I Know (A Little)”, and a live version filmed on a gondola in Venice.
Additionally, Collier has released a visualiser for each song on the album, filmed whilst on the DJESSE world tour, and celebrating locations of outstanding beauty in Brazil, France, Mexico, Peru and Curacao. Stay tuned for weekly live performance videos dropping on his YouTube page over the next couple of months, featuring Collier and his 5-string guitar performing in further striking spaces around the world.
Collier also just hosted a special listening event at EartH Hackney this past Monday, ahead of global fan community listening gatherings in the U.K., U.S., France, Italy, Mexico, South Korea, Spain, Brazil, Hong Kong, Australia, Netherlands and India.
In August, Jacob Collier previewed The Light For Days during a surprise playback at his inaugural Hideaway Retreat, where he and 300 musicians and music enthusiasts transformed Tarrytown, NY into the center of his radically joyful world. The event marked a culmination of a year that has seen him earn his fifteenth GRAMMY® nomination, and his second for Album of The Year; honor his late mentor and musical hero, Quincy Jones, on the GRAMMY® telecast; headline the O2 Arena in his London hometown; collaborate with Bon Iver, as well as 9,000 primary school children as part of the UK’s ‘Young Voices’ choir initiative; conduct the National Symphony Orchestra in a completely improvised performance; lead hundreds of thousands of concert attendees in his immersive audience choirs, and perform atop an Arctic iceberg with AURORA and Greenpeace. The corresponding “A Rock Somewhere x The Seed” video has been nominated for a UK Music Video Award for Best Live Performance this year.
Whether it's working with such artists as Quincy Jones, Joni Mitchell, SZA, Bon Iver, Coldplay, Shawn Mendes, John Mayer, Stormzy, Kirk Franklin, Oumou Sangaré, Anoushka Shankar or Hans Zimmer, selling out arenas, breaking track-count limits in DAWs, or bringing 100,000 people together in audience choirs around the world, Jacob Collier continues to push the boundaries of creative possibility, with a mission of uniting and inspiring every continent in a language beyond words.
This fall, Collier continues a tour across the U.S. China, India and Australia, where he will perform with his band, orchestras and completely solo. Find the full list of upcoming dates at jacobcollier.com/tour.
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