Jacob Alon announces debut album 'In Limerence' and shares lead single 'Don't Fall Asleep' • News • DIY Magazine

Scottish singer-songwriter Jacob Alon has announced that their debut album, ‘In Limerence’, will arrive on 30th May via Island/EMI, and has shared tender new single ‘Don’t Fall Asleep’ to mark the occasion.

Recorded in London alongside cult producer Dan Carey, the record will feature all Jacob’s previously released tracks - ‘Fairy In A Bottle’, ‘Confession’, and ‘Liquid Gold 25’ - and, if they’re anything to go by, it promises to be an intricate, devastatingly beautiful work of spellbinding, folksy storytelling.

Sharing more about the moving inspiration behind ‘Don’t Fall Asleep’, Jacob has explained: “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.”

You can watch the lyric video for ‘Don’t Fall Asleep’ below.

‘In Limerence’ tracklisting:
1. Glimmer
2. Of Amber
3. Don’t Fall Asleep
4. I Couldn’t Feed Her
5. Confession
6. Elijah
7. Liquid Gold 25
8. August Moon
9. Home Tapes
10. Zathura
11. Fairy In A Bottle
12. Sertraline

Jacob Alon’s upcoming live dates - including a stint supporting Olly Alexander around the UK and Europe - are as follows:

MARCH 2025
23 Paris, La Cigale #
24 Brussels, Cirque Royal #
26 Berlin, Metropol #
27 Warsaw, Palladium #
29 Zurich, Komplex 457 #
30 Utrecht, TivoliVredenburg #

APRIL 2025
01 Dublin, 3Olympia Theatre #
02 Birmingham, Town Hall #
03 Glasgow, Barrowlands #
04 Manchester, Factory International, Aviva Studios #
06 Bristol, Bristol Beacon #
07 London, London Palladium #

MAY 2025
24 Bristol, Dot to Dot Festival
25 Nottingham, Dot to Dot Festival
27 London, EartH Theatre

JUNE 2025
04 Manchester, Band on the Wall
05 Glasgow, Art School

JULY 2025
26 Yorkshire, Deer Shed Festival

AUGUST 2025
30 Val de Bagnes, Palp Festival

# w/ Olly Alexander

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