Allegories Blur Fiction and Feeling on Introspective, Shoegaze-Inflected Single “Honestly, that’s enough honesty,” New Album, ‘By accident, On purpose,’ Out October 16th
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.