Modern Songwriting Great Tobias Jesso Jr. Announces ‘Shine,’ His First New Album Since 2015

In 2015, Canadian singer-songwriter Tobias Jesso Jr. released his debut album, Goon. The project earned some acclaim and was one of the year’s best-reviewed albums. He even performed with The Roots on Fallon. After that, though, he shifted gears, instead carving out a career in more of a background role, as a songwriter. Over the past decade, he was at least partially responsible for a lot of songs you’ve probably heard of: Adele’s “When We Were Young” and Niall Horan’s “Slow Hands” are a couple examples, while he also all over projects like Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism, Dijon’s Baby, and Justi