In 2023, Welsh brothers Tom and Ed Russell finally released Good Lies, their debut album as Overmono. It earned our Album Of The Week honor and landed at #2 of our list of the best electronic albums of that year. Now, the UK dance duo is announcing its followup, Pure Devotion, arriving this summer.
"For us, making music has always been about having fun," the siblings say, continuing:
being in the studio together, having a laugh. a never ending process of exploring new ways of making tunes. forever learning, always trying to get better - v83 was a new pb on one of these tracks…
with this album we wanted to try make something that captured the physical space of our studios. setting up loads of ways of processing, recording, re amping sounds…. ‘the vocal isn’t sitting quite right? let’s track it through an old tannoy speaker in the basement. that synth needs to twang harder? let’s play it through an old train station announcement speaker from the 1930’s.’ we ran tape over magnets, blew up some speakers and finally utilised that dirt cheap overclocked fx unit we snaffled years ago in bromley. we even oven baked a cymbal covered in coffee grounds, crisps and vinegar - thank you sylvia massy for that one
and a huge thank you to the incredible artists we collaborated with, rollo, john holt, kindora, ruthven, we couldn’t have done this album without you and honoured that you’re part of it
thanks as well to all the artists who we sampled, all the studios we recorded in and all the engineers we learnt from in the process of making this record
endless appreciation to everyone who takes the time to listen, we made it for you
Big love t&e x
The lead single "Lockup" is out today. Hear it below.
TRACKLIST:
01 "Lockup"
02 "Knight In Shining Prada" (Feat. John Joseph Holt)
03 "Slowmotion"
04 "Even Angels Ghost" (Feat. Kindora)
05 "Barum"
06 "Mialon"
07 "Laxbrook"
08 "Gem Lingo (ovr now)" (Feat. Ruthven)
09 "Adre"
10 "Ballad" (Feat. Kindora & Rock Floyd)
11 "After The Rain"
TOUR DATES:
05/22 – Bakersfield, CA @ Lightning In A Bottle
05/24 – Detroit, MI @ Movement
06/04 – Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound
06/06 – Paris, France @ We Love Green
06/26 – Nottingham, UK @ Boiler Room Festival (DJ set)
07/05 – Ewijk, Netherlands @ Down The Rabbit Hole
07/31 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ O Days
08/01 – Puglia, Italy @ VIVA! Festival (DJ set)
08/07 – London, UK @ Old Royal Naval College
08/08 – Brno, Czech Republic @ Pop Messe
08/15 – Trenčín, Slovakia @ Grape Festival
08/29 – Lincoln, UK @ Lost Village
Pure Devotion is out 8/7 via XL. Pre-order it here.
