Tessa Rose Jackson
Tessa Rose Jackson is a songwriter, composer and visual artist based in London and Amsterdam. For six years, she released music under the moniker Someone, but as of 2024, she returned to using her own name for all her creative output.
As Tessa is a film composer as well as an indie artist, her music has a naturally visual quality to it, channelling stories in which the human, the intimate and the fantastical are intertwined. Musically, she channels heroes such as Feist, Laura Marling, Nick Drake and Zero 7, toeing the fine line between dreams and reality, delicacy and force.
Her 2013 album (Songs From) The Sandbox was a success for her at the age of 19, but also an instant albatross. Rejecting performative pop, for the next decade she retreated behind a kind of anti-pseudonym, recording simply as Someone - a project which pushed the boundaries of art and music with experimental visuals, augmented reality, and immersive live shows.
From 2017, Someone indulged influences from Air to Charlotte Gainsbourg, Carole King, Feist and Tame Impala to make beautiful dream pop music. Releases included 2019’s Orbit EP, 2020’s EP Orbit II, and the albums; 2021’s Shapeshifter and 2023’s Owls. Her video for ‘I Guess I’m Changing’, from Owls, was selected for Tribeca Film Festival and was directed by David Spearing.
2024 saw Tessa expand her artistry in groundbreaking ways - including contributing five original tracks to the soundtrack of the highly anticipated video game ‘Life Is Strange: Double Exposure’. She continued into 2025 with the release of a stunning collaborative seven-track EP, A Mirror Sometimes.
Ultimately, Someone dissolved into the ether. “It allowed me to develop in my own artistry, allowing that to shape without too much outside pressure“, says Tessa. “I feel like it did its job, and now I can go back to my own name.” And revealed as Tessa Rose Jackson again, she began peeling back the layers even further for a new era.
Released in January 2026, The Lighthouse is both timely and timeless, intimate and universal, sumptuous and spare. A thing of stature and beauty gleaming in the pitch. “It's an album that's about death, but not in that very dark sense,” Tessa says. “For me, it's also very much about life - the celebration of life and allowing yourself to think about these things.” And on the cliff face of modern alt-folk, it stands tall.
Following the album, there will be a documentary made during the recording sessions of The Lighthouse. Shot by Bibian Bingen, it offers an intimate look at Jackson’s creative process. The premiere is scheduled to be later in 2026.
“This rising Dutch-British singer-songwriter — previously an Amsterdam dream-pop enigma known as Someone, who ditched the pseudonym and emerged from the pandemic as one of the most bewitching and intimate voices in modern alt-folk.” The Times ⭑⭑⭑⭑
“A luminous folk rebirth.” The Guardian, Folk Album of the Month ⭑⭑⭑⭑
“Elaborate and innovative, with everytrack giving something new to consider.” Earmilk ⭑⭑⭑⭑
“An impressively versatile record with a bold lyrical flourish.” Clash 8/10
“Tangible and poetic.” NRC ⭑⭑⭑⭑
“Sounding perfect in every way.” Cerys Matthews, BBC 6 Music
“You’re not quite prepared for the hit to the solarplexus that is delivered by the lyrics.” Analogue Trash
“A true light in the dark.” Melodic Mag
“Masterpiece.” OOR (NL)
“Totally addictive.” Clash Magazine
"As magically beautiful as it is alluring." NRC - 5 Stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑
"Filling a dreamy distance between Taylor Swift, Sharon Van Etten and ‘Robbers’ era-1975, there is something in Someone’s flourishes of gentle psych-pop that feels familiar and new all at the same time; exactly the kind of artist to root for." The Forty-Five
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