Allegories Deliver a Darkly Playful Spin on Indie-Electronic & Alt-Pop with “Stay Out Of The Basement”
Experimental indie-electronic duo Allegories return with “Stay Out Of The Basement,” a mischievous alt-pop track that pairs lush, genre-warped production with a tongue-in-cheek narrative twist. Balancing intrigue and dark humour, the single imagines a world where your crush’s overly inquisitive parents meet a sinister fate simply because they couldn’t resist snooping while you were making out in the basement.
With a sound rooted in indie-electronic, alt-pop, and the duo’s signature unpredictability, “Stay Out Of The Basement” blurs lines between playful fantasy and eerie undertone. It’s another testament to Allegories’ talent for crafting songs that surprise and subvert expectations – inviting listeners into layered sonic landscapes that feel both inviting and uncanny.
“‘Stay Out Of The Basement’ is the second in a series of songs that started on ukulele—but this one took a left turn. I wrote the original idea, dropped it into Pro Tools, and handed it off to Jordan. Usually, we keep parts of that first take—vocals, lyrics, melodies—but in this case, none of it made the cut.
The original version had solid ideas, but it didn’t fit the new direction. The vibe, the vocal phrasing—it just didn’t connect. So we started fresh. What you hear now is entirely built around Jordan’s instrumental, and the final vocal fits it naturally.
Each song in this series lands somewhere different. Some stay true to the original demo, others evolve into something completely new. ‘Stay Out Of The Basement’ is one of the rare ones that left the ukulele version behind entirely.”