Overmono started as a corrective. Tom Russell had spent years making hard techno as Truss; Ed had earned his stripes in drum and bass and hardcore as Tessela, with tracks like "Hackney Parrot" setting a template for the hardcore renaissance. When they came back together, they weren't trying to split the difference between their solo work—they were trying to get past it.
They booked a cottage studio in Devon, dug into a box of their parents' old dance records, and started building tracks from fragments: euphoric breakbeats, amen breaks dissected and rearranged, 2-step patterns stretched into something new. It wasn't revisionism, though rave's somatic force runs through everything they touch. The 2023 debut album Good Lies...crested at number 11 on the UK Charts and landed on critics' year-end lists as one of the decade's definitive electronic records. Tracks like "So U Kno" (which Resident Advisor named best track of 2021) and collaborations with Joy Orbison, Fred again.., and Lil Yachty showed a duo who could move fluidly between club energy and real emotional depth.
By 2025, they'd become one of the UK's most vital live acts, headlining Glastonbury, Alexandra Palace, and The Warehouse Project with a show built on precision and abandon in equal measure. Their new album Pure Devotion arrives this August. Whether reworking the Streets or High Contrast, sampling ABRA or threading together decades of UK electronic history, Overmono sound less interested in capturing the past than in using it as a blueprint for something true.