A vibrant new sin­gle has just been released this week by singer-song­writer and com­pos­er Tes­sa Rose Jack­son called Built to Col­lide. The track is out just before her lat­est album called The Light­house drops on 23rd January.

Tes­sa calls it her ‘rant song’, which she describes as “A song about accept­ing that some­times you live and you don’t learn. It’s human nature to mess up, to some­times fall into the old mis­takes you thought you’d grown out of. This song is my cel­e­bra­tion of this and an invi­ta­tion to slight­ly poke fun at your­self. Thought you’d know bet­ter by now? Well guess what, you don’t! Dust your­self off, have a lit­tle laugh and move on.”

Tes­sa Rose Jack­son was raised in Ams­ter­dam and has per­formed and record­ed as ‘Some­one’ for many years. It’s only more recent­ly that Some­one dis­solved into the ether for the artists in ques­tion to reveal her­self as Tes­sa Rose Jack­son. With The Light­house Tes­sa dis­tills the spir­it of inno­va­tion she explored as Some­one into some­thing raw­er and deeply per­son­al. The Light­house is an album that doesn’t just reflect her jour­ney, but trans­forms it into some­thing beautiful.

Tes­sa Rose Jackson’s Built to Col­lide is a love­ly song with a open, direct and com­mu­nica­tive feel. She allows her vocals to shift in a qui­et­ly emo­tion­al and sub­tle way, rem­i­nis­cent of Joni Mitchell. There is a con­fi­dence and joy­ful­ness about Tes­sa, like­ly born from her jour­ney to where she is now as an artist – uncom­pro­mis­ing and reborn, unafraid to show her­self. The video for Built to Col­lide beau­ti­ful­ly reflects this: an expres­sive artist danc­ing against a myr­i­ad of back­drops – the beach, a coun­try road, a cityscape – ful­ly at ease in her own skin.

Tour dates:
Thu 29 Jan 2026 Glas­gow – The Glad Cafe
Wed 11 March 2026 Brighton – Folk­lore
Thu 12 March 2026 Lon­don – SJQ
Fri 13 March 2026 Bris­tol – The Louisiana
Sat 14 March 2026 Man­ches­ter – The Cas­tle
Sun 15 March 2026 Tynemouth – ALTR
Wed 18 March 2026 Edin­burgh – Lei­th Depot
Fri 20 March 2026 Paris – l’Archipel
Sat 21 March 2026 Ams­ter­dam – Par­adiso Tol­huis­tu­in
Mon 23 March 2026 Berlin – LARK
Tue 24 March 2026 Ham­burg – Nochtwache
Wed 25 March 2026 Cologne – The­ater der Wohngemeinschaft

Tes­sa Rose Jack­son. Pre­order The Light­house album, out 23rd Jan­u­ary 2026
Tour tick­ets here