Experimental duo Allegories return with “Honestly, that’s enough honesty,” a buoyant yet introspective indie rock/shoegaze-leaning single that explores the fragile space between truth, performance, and self-deception. Built on shifting textures and genre-blurring arrangements, the track moves between dreamy catharsis and unpredictable emotional turns, embodying the duo’s long-standing fascination with unstable narratives and fractured perspective. It’s taken from Allegories’ upcoming new album, By accident, On purpose, set for release on October 16th, 2026.

At its core, the song questions the idea of authenticity itself. Written from the perspective of unreliable narrators, it reflects on how even our most “honest” expressions are shaped by distortion, memory, and self-mythology. “People often assume I’m a confessional songwriter,” Adam Bentley explains. “It’s not that elements aren’t drawn from my life, but the songs feel more like channeling characters and fragments of people I’ve observed.”

That tension between truth and invention becomes the emotional engine of the track. Rather than presenting clarity, it leans into contradiction: the idea that deception isn’t just unavoidable, but foundational to how we move through the world. “We’re all deceiving each other in the way we perform in public, and probably deceiving ourselves in private too,” they add. “Otherwise, how the hell would we keep living?”

Sonically, “Honestly, that’s enough honesty” continues Allegories’ tradition of genre mutation. Indie rock structures dissolve into shoegaze haze, buoyant melodic moments drift into unstable abstraction, and familiar forms are constantly recontextualized. The result is a track that feels both immediate and unsettled, grounding itself in hooks while resisting fixed interpretation.

The song also sits naturally within the duo’s broader creative framework for their upcoming record, where each track emerges from layered processes of transformation, rewriting, and reconstruction. What begins as something simple is continually reshaped until it becomes something entirely unanticipated, yet instinctively correct.

“Honestly, that’s enough honesty” ultimately embraces contradiction rather than resolving it. It suggests that truth is not a fixed point, but something constantly refracted through performance, memory, and imagination.

Each Allegories record emerges through improvisation, trial and error, and a relentless pursuit of discovery. Within that exploration, however, are guiding lights. Their first record, Surreal Auteur (2008), began as a commission for a noise tape, though the early improvisations naturally drifted toward pop structures. The sounds of ‘60s pop, Motown and The Beach Boys in particular, became foundational references. Their next record, Endless, was inspired by forward-thinking electronic musicians with one foot in the club. House music formed its DNA, though abstraction continuously bubbled to the surface.

Their newest record, By accident, On purpose (October 16, 2026), began with every song written on ukulele, almost as a dare, choosing the instrument least associated with electronic music. From there, those skeletal foundations were gradually erased beneath Jordan Mitchell’s eclectic arrangements until the songs transformed into entirely new forms. Adam Bentley then wrote a second song overtop of the evolving structures, before both versions, vocals, melodies, and arrangements, were fused together into something new. Through that process, more organic and traditional rock elements re-emerged. Guitars, absent from Endless (2022), crept back in alongside live drums and bass. Shoegaze textures surfaced, and traces of Mitchell and Bentley’s decade spent together in indie rock band The Rest began to cut through the electronic experimentation.

Past releases have drawn attention from Pitchfork, Stereogum, The Needle Drop, CBC, and more, alongside live appearances with BADBADNOTGOOD, Future Islands, and Yo La Tengo.