2025 · Album
The Light for Days
Not publicly confirmed at time of writing · Produced by Jacob Collier · Released: 10 October 2025
Light Borrowed From Someone Else's Song
Collier covers the Staves and somehow makes it feel completely his own.
Jacob Collier's sixth studio album, The Light for Days (2025), arrives after years of Collier building a reputation as the guy who can harmonize anything into seventeen dimensions and still make it feel playful. This record is a mix of originals and covers, and the title itself comes from the Staves' song 'Icarus' — which is either a lovely gesture of credit or a slightly unusual move for an artist who usually seems to generate ideas faster than most people can process them. Either way, it works. The cover of 'Icarus' is one of the more interesting things here because it gives Collier a melodic and emotional anchor that isn't entirely of his own construction, and that constraint actually seems to suit him.
What you get across the album is the usual Collier toolkit — dense vocal harmonies, rhythmic ideas that shift under your feet, arrangements that feel both overloaded and somehow controlled — but there's a warmth to this record that makes it more approachable than some of his earlier work. The originals hold their own without trying to out-clever everything around them, which is a good sign. Collier has always been technically impressive to the point where the technique can occasionally get in the way of just listening to a song. That's less of a problem here.
This isn't a quiet or stripped-back record, and it's not really trying to be. If you're new to Collier, this is a reasonable place to start — it gives you the full picture without being overwhelming. If you've followed him for a while, it feels like someone who's figured out what he actually wants to say rather than just demonstrating what he's capable of saying. That's a meaningful shift.
Who's playing
Jacob Collieracoustic bass guitar
