Since the release of 2022’s Endless, the Canadian experimental pop duo and JOVM mainstays  Allegories — childhood friends Adam Bentley and Jordan Mitchell — have released a growing collection of standalone singles. The duo’s forthcoming album, By accident, On purpose is slated for an October 16, 2026 release.

By accident, On purpose‘s first official single “Honestly, that’s enough honesty” is a broodingly atmospheric, slow-burning and introspective tune featuring shifting shoegazer-like textures. The song feels dreamily laid back yet uneasy and unsettled.

Thematically, “Honestly, that’s enough honesty” sees the JOVM mainstays questioning the very idea of authenticity. Written from the perspective of an unreliable narrator, the song reflects on how even our most honest expressions are shaped by distortion, memory and self-mythology. Fittingly, the song sees the leaning hard into contradiction: the idea that deception isn’t unavoidable, but foundational to how we move and operate through the world. “People often assume I’m a confessional songwriter,” Allegories’ Adam Bentley explains. “We’re all deceiving each other in the way we perform in public, and probably deceiving ourselves in private too,” the duo add. “Otherwise, how the hell would we keep living?”

“Honestly, that’s enough honestly” showcases the creative framework for the Canadian duo’s new album: Each track emerges from layered process of rewriting, reconstruction and transformation. What initially began as a simple sketch has been continually reshaped until it becomes something unanticipated yet instinctively right.