After five albums and more than a decade together, frontman and songwriter Ben Stewart approached album six by looking back. While searching for what came next, he dug into every era of Slowly Slowly's catalogue, pulling apart the sounds, ideas, and instincts that had always felt most true to them. The result is what Stewart describes as an almost self-titled album – “an unadulterated version of Slowly Slowly that doesn’t sound like any other band.”

Getting there meant stripping the creative process back completely. Where 2025's Forgiving Spree came together across songwriting sessions split between Melbourne and LA and marked the first time Stewart brought collaborators into the writing process, Everybody Tells The Truth was written entirely by Stewart alone. Working from his own studio, he created hundreds of ideas, scrapped and reworked them, spending long stretches in isolation following instinct and searching for the songs that felt undeniable.

“The whole concept of truth is baked into these songs, because that’s what saves us in the end. Being true to ourselves is the only beacon that we can aim for.”