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Jacob Alon Announces Debut Album Details + Shares New Single

“In Limerence” Released 30^th May 2025
Listen To Don’t Fall Asleep 

+ New UK Live Dates – On Sale Friday 21^st March

Jacob Alon is very pleased to announce details of their debut album, In Limerence. The record is released on 30^th May via Island / EMI.

The album was recorded in London and produced by Dan Carey. It features all of Jacob’s singles released to date: Fairy In A Bottle, Confession, and Liquid Gold 25. A new single is shared to coincide with the album’s announcement, and it is streaming now. Listen to Don’t Fall Asleep HERE.

Scotland’s Jacob Alon is resetting the button on British contemporary folk music. They certainly possess all the touchpoints; that lilting, otherworldly vocal, colourful story-telling, and fingerpicking patterns traced along their acoustic guitar’s fretboard, but whilst Jacob displays all the classic folksy attributes, they fidget on a different plain entirely.  Sure, the voice is ghostly, but often evokes that of a tortured angel; the darkest of lyricists laced with jet black humour. Bleakly beautiful bittersweet symphonies. Scotland’s young Makar in waiting, and In Limerence their opening chapter.

Jacob on new single, Don’t Fall Asleep: “This song, to me, floats across the stormy surface of the sea of dreams, gasping against its choppy tide, resisting the soft pull below into an endless deep.

It’s centred around the story of a cousin of mine who tragically drowned in a freak accident before I was born.

I never knew him personally, but I’ve always had an idea painted in my mind of what he’d be like through the memories & stories of my family members. Because of this, I’ve always had a kind of fictional relationship to him.

So, this song takes place in the liminal space between worlds, from his fictional perspective.

He would leave behind a son he didn’t know about – tracing circles of life and death. A gift of life born on the other side of that delicate & fragile balance between two worlds. Of loss & gain. And the love & pain which bridges both.

It’s also about the moments in my life where living & loving has felt more like an active choice & promise to go on, than a faithful given. Like treading water. Like thinking about breathing. It’s about choosing to keep believing in the real world and not giving in to the seductive world of dreams – to that shy death.

In a strange bout of synchronicity, just as I was writing this song, I received a message from my cousin’s brother – who told me the story of how he and my cousin used to pick a record each night to fall asleep to – I found this to be a wildly meaningful coincidence. This brother is also one of the only other musicians in my family and he shared an ambient album* he had made dedicated to his late brother that was intended to be listened to whilst falling asleep.”

*The ambient record, Altar 25 | Vol 1 Awake Until Dreaming by the artist KULLUS, is here: https://prismglitchmusic.com/home
 

Jacob takes these songs out on the road for the rest of the year, firstly in support of Olly Alexander in rooms across the UK and Europe, and then three headline shows of their own in London, Manchester and Glasgow. Tickets for these headline shows in May and June go on sale from Friday 21^st March – See Jacob’s socials for pre-sale information –  Instagram / TikTok
 
Tracklisting:

Glimmer / Of Amber / Don’t Fall Asleep / I Couldn’t Feed Her / Confession / Elijah / Liquid Gold 25 / August Moon / Home Tapes / Zathura / Fairy In A Bottle / Sertraline

Jacob Alon Live:

23^rd March – Paris @ La Cigale (w/ Olly Alexander)
24^th March – Brussels @ Cirque Royal (w/ Olly Alexander)
26^th March – Berlin @ Metropol (w/ Olly Alexander)
27^th March – Warsaw @ Palladium (w/ Olly Alexander)
29^th March – Zurich @ Komplex 457 (w/ Olly Alexander)
30^th March – Utrecht @ TivoliVredenburg (w/ Olly Alexander)
1^st April – Dublin @ 3Olympia Theatre (w/ Olly Alexander)
2^nd April – Birmingham @ Town Hall (w/ Olly Alexander)
3^rd April – Glasgow @ Barrowlands ( w/ Olly Alexander)
4^th April – Manchester @ Factory International, Aviva Studios (w/ Olly Alexander)
6^th April – Bristol @ Bristol Beacon (w/ Olly Alexander)
7^th April – London @ London Palladium (w/ Olly Alexander)
24^th May – Bristol @ Dot to Dot Festival
25^th May – Nottingham @ Dot to Dot Festival
27^th May – London @ EartH Theatre *New Date*
4^th June – Manchester @ Band on the Wall *New Date*
5^th June – Glasgow @ Art School *New Date*
26^th July – Yorkshire @ Deer Shed Festival
30^th August – Val de Bagnes, Switzerland @ Palp Festival

Tickets for Manchester’s Band On The Wall headline show can be found here. 

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Desh Kapur UK-Editor/Photographer

My life is a soundtrack, i track my life through music, photography is my passion, my escape, my expression. Without both i have pieces missing, thankfully i’m blessed and get to combine both.
Born in Manchester, lived in Australia for 22 years where i was heavily involved in the Australian Music Industry, firstly in bands (Singer) and then managing bands (all original), I moved back to the UK, Wales specifically 10 years ago