Music
Jacob Alon
Fragile soul from Dunfermline has grown wings – and would love to share them with you
Although it all started with playing Nick Drake songs in their bedroom, the story of Jacob Alon has not unfolded like Drake's. The talent is there, the deep emotion and, thank goodness, now also the success, after years of purification. Reportedly, a then-unknown Alon managed to silence a Scottish pub completely with their very first original song. Such is the power of the singer-songwriter, whose debut album In Limerence is teeming with splendid, diary-like lyrics and fabulous, Lenkeresque fingerpicking. The kind of work that indeed makes you listen breathlessly, while the pint in your hand slowly grows lukewarm.
