{"id":3597258,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597258/?format=json","airdate":"2025-12-28T17:06:41-08:00","show":65499,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65499/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Fairy in a Bottle","track_id":null,"recording_id":"77c63625-da0c-4b36-b35a-e9711882c86c","artist":"Jacob Alon","artist_ids":["86621e68-ef8f-45ac-a6d0-b1824beb2666"],"album":"In Limerence","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"255d20ed-05cb-48b7-b547-dbe392513011","labels":["Island Records"],"label_ids":[],"release_date":"2025-05-30","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Kevin Cole's #1 Album of the Year!\n\nJacob Alon was nominated for a 2025 Mercury Prize, which FarOut Magazine aptly describes as \"a win for industry outsiders. When we talk about the music industry being broken, a talent like Alon is exactly the type of artist we talk about being lost. Born in Fife and raised by a single mother on the border between a housing estate and a forest — it’s not the context the music industry often goes looking in. They also had to face up to the pain of being ostracised by their family for being non-binary, adding a whole new battle.\" https://tinyurl.com/ypzn7urm\n\nOf this Dan Carey-produced track, Scottish artist Jacob Alon shares, \"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.\n\n\"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.\n\n\"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.\" https://tinyurl.com/475mtsrn","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}