“I set myself the challenge of making a full-length album, using almost entirely the five-stringed guitar, in just four days”: Polymath virtuoso Jacob Collier’s new album is a love letter to the guitar – and alternate tunings

Jacob Collier sits in a windowsill and plays an acoustic guitar. he wears a multi-colored shirt.

Jacob Collier has announced a new studio album that’s driven entirely by the guitar. But The Light For Days is not your typical guitar album – you won’t hear a six-string on it.

Instead, Collier relies mostly upon his five-string tuned to DAEAD, trading “scales for intimacy”. And he made it all in less than a week. By the sounds of it, Collier couldn’t contain himself. The music just kept on tumbling out.