Thai artist James Alyn, London-based pop band PREP team up

Song marks their first-ever collaboration

- Brontë H. Lacsamana

THAI MUSICIAN James Alyn, known as one-half of the pop duo HYBS, has released his latest single as a solo artist, titled “Don’t Worry,” featuring the British pop band PREP.

The track was born after Mr. Alyn opened for PREP for their Taipei concert in May last year. They jammed for a bit at the home studio of Kuo, a member of the Taiwanese synth-pop band Sunset Rollercoaster.

“We didn’t really aim to write anything together. I recorded our jam session on my phone and forgot about it. A year later, I opened this voice memo from that day and then I thought, ‘oh, this is pretty cool,” he said at a virtual press conference on Dec. 16.