Jacob Alon has shared beautiful new single ‘Confession’.
The Scottish-born songwriter is a true talent, with their soaring, angelic voice matched to intricate acoustic guitar patterns. An exceptional musician, Jacob can also capture a crowd – CLASH watched their recent London set at Folklore and emerged transfixed.
Performing their recent single ‘Fairy In A Bottle’ for a quickly-going-viral Later… performance over the weekend, Jacob Alon has now swooped to share something new.
Out now, ‘Confession’ is built around that comforting mesh of guitar notes, recalling everyone from Nick Drake to Sufjan.
The song itself is about learning to jettison the shame so many queer people associate with their adolescence; lyrically, Jacob puts it all out there – mistakes, regrets, and the profound urge to move on without hindrance.
In a note, they comment…
This song, for me, is a shedding of shame. It’s a soft hand tracing the stretch marks left behind by a once messy, awkward, painful, and frightening realisation of my queerness. It’s a memory of the unspoken ways in which my heart and body knew how to move; knew how to draw in close under a cloak of darkness to bridge canyons of hatred and fear with acts of love.
Love to me then was silent. It grew from the shadows. Voiceless in a vacuum of denial and shame. But even without air, it moved on its own. Squeezing up through the smallest cracks. Chipping little stones at my window. Showing me how fast my heart could really go.
And still somehow I couldn’t heed its call… because as queer people, we are taught to hate and fear the beautiful boundless colourful love that is in us. And it’s a tragic, paradoxical illness – to fear love.
As queer people, we are always coming out – every single day. We have to continually justify our existence against the painful grain of the heteropatriarchy.
I wrote this song the night after a party where my self-esteem had shattered into a million pieces. When, out of my face, I’d confessed to someone with my words, my precious words, how I had loved them all those years ago. I was half-expecting some big revelation or closure or acknowledgement, but it didn’t come. I would always be something they’d rather pretend didn’t happen.
I wish I could tell little Cob how much joy and beauty was waiting for them on the other side of all that pain. I hope I can give the same love to anyone out there who’s still figuring things out.
And I want to keep giving it to you – my beautiful, boundless, infinite queers. This song is for you. This song is for little Cob.
Tune in now.
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Jacob Alon has confirmed a number of headline shows around the country for the opening weeks of 2025, including a headline night at Hoxton Hall on January 27th.
Photo Credit: Jules Moskovtchenko
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