Allegories, the electronic/experimental pop duo hailing from Hamilton, Ontario, are following up their recent hazy and melodic single, “NOSTALGIA KILLS,” with “Evaporate,” a lush, romantic piece which harkens back to the group’s early days of obscuring their identities.

“Can you recall, everything I held so close to me, kiss me,” calls Adam Bentley over a gradually enveloping bed of synths, bass, and beats programmed by Jordan Mitchell, using the full range of his voice to mine the song’s vulnerability.

Friends would think that a female vocalist was singing on “Evaporate” when the duo began to play it for their friends, the band going so far as to conjure up a female pop star that they would credit as the lead vocalist, complete with auditions, a music video, and associated social media accounts. 

And then for a brief second [we] released the song. No one blinked. The charade went completely undetected, and that soured the experiment.

We realized we wanted people in on the deception. To even collaborate with it. But we hadn’t thought that far ahead and we were growing tired of the constant aesthetic shell game. So, we disappeared into the studio for another 6 years.

Then we happened upon the song again. It blew us away. The whole artifice of presentation had obscured how vibrant the track was. So we dove back in, without the weight of trying to construct a duplicitous world the ideas flowed easily. A much-needed reminder that it’s the music that matters. Everything else that follows just holds it in place. And if you worry too much about the elaborate frame, the art becomes overshadowed. – Allegories