Canada's Allegories Get Experimental on New Indie-Electronic Single “Baker’s Lung”

Experimental indie-electronic duo Allegories return with “Baker’s Lung,” another entry in their ongoing series of transforming barebones ukulele sketches into idiosyncratic electronic sound sculptures. Plush, spacey, and nuanced, the track blends introspection with layered textures, expanding a simple progression into something cinematic, immersive, and otherworldly.

With “Baker’s Lung,” Allegories ruminate on mortality, meaning, and the elusive pursuit of fulfillment. As you imagine the future, how do you build when the foundation of what you thought mattered no longer fills that space? What do you do when your time is consumed by the hours of a career? Can you just contemplate and die? Or can you follow the breadcrumbs to fulfillment, maybe even enlightenment? Probably not, but worth asking. And worth trying.

Even if the “Baker’s Lung” is probably going to end you.


“Baker’s Lung” started from a ukulele sketch with vocals. Allegories took that progression, moved it in new directions, and abandoned the original – a fun exercise where you have a map, but you have to burn it to get to the right location. It’s an existential meditation wrapped in the duo’s lush, genre-warped sound design.


I used to be a mountain filled with boxes of wants
Now I’m waiting on clues



It’s not every day that a long-dormant experimental noise project reappears as an elite electronic-pop outfit intent on burrowing into your subconscious and unearthing deep-seated memories of a time when we could congregate freely without worry.

In 2014, the duo known as Allegories began to experiment across genres, melding eclectic soundscapes with pop inclinations. Gathering further inspiration from DJing house and hip-hop nights around town, Allegories went on to create electronic music that shifts throughout the over/underground spectrum.

Their music is at once earnest and abstract, tricking listeners into the thought that they might be hearing straightforward dance music before the duo’s inherent eccentricities shift interpretation. They deliver unguarded ballads as effortlessly as they develop layers of cut-up samples reaching into the worlds of IDM, shoegaze/dream-pop, and psychedelia.


Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8SD_Xwputw