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Jacob Alon on Charting a Painful, Powerful Journey to Healing on Debut LP ‘In Limerence’


The Scottish songwriter tells Billboard about finding beauty in despair through their evocative folk songs.

On a crisp spring evening in April 2023, Alon met their musical hero, having put on an impromptu busking gig outside Edinburgh’s Usher Hall for Lenker and her Big Thief bandmates. Speaking to Billboard U.K., Alon unpacks working with production maestro Dan Carey [Fontaines D.C., Wet Leg], touring as a neurodiverse person, and the “good c–-ts only” policy they uphold within their inner circle of collaborators. A special moment, however, had to be when Dan and I recorded my song “Home Tapes.” When my mum was moving house, which happened during a gap in the creation of the album, I uncovered this box of unnamed VHS tapes.

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