From the quiet corners of a Nova Scotia night, Jont’s “Let’s Just Be Friends” emerges as a tender, nocturnal meditation on love and truth, a song that drifts between dreamy romanticism and grounded self-awareness. Jont shares, “Late at night, sat up in bed with my guitar, is how some of my best songs have come. Maybe it was always thus for songwriters, Cohen, Dylan, the muse sitting beside them as the world sleeps. And with my cats Oscar and Buttons beside me, I can be found there too, up late, lights low, guitar in my lap, writing something that’s sprung out of me without warning and demanding my attention.” The song exists in that liminal space between longing and surrender, with lyrics capturing the fleeting, dizzying joy of new connection even as verses quietly predict its impermanence.
Jont reflects on the creative process: “Sometimes it seems the songs know before I do how things are going to go. But we haven’t learnt the lesson until we’ve had enough of the pain. And though over the years the pain might have seemed almost too much to bear, it has also led directly to more fruitful evenings, sat up late at night, guitar in lap, as emotions alchemise and dissolve into a subtle and radiant joy.” “Let’s Just Be Friends” is a study in emotional honesty, its vulnerability resting gently atop warm, stripped-back instrumentation. Since relocating from England to Nova Scotia and discovering fatherhood, Jont’s music has entered its most reflective, tender, and profound phase. With “Let’s Just Be Friends” and the music that will follow beyond 2025, Jont steps into a new creative chapter, one that is at once ambitious, grounded, and profoundly human.