Overmono: Good Lies review – certified bangers galore | Dance music
The UK sets a high bar for new electronic acts. Hot on the heels of Bicep are another duo armed with a sense of rave nostalgia, an array of samples and nimble, fat-free productions. Brothers Tom and Ed Russell grew up in rural south Wales, hosting splendidly isolated micro-raves in woods and quarries (the duo take their band name from Overmonnow, a Monmouth suburb; amusingly, their forenames also echo the Chemical Brothers’).Unlike Bicep, though, Overmono aren’t techno revivalists, but partial to old school syncopations:…