The Overmono Lockup listen moment is here, and it arrives with a bigger announcement attached: brothers Tom and Ed Russell have confirmed a brand new album titled Pure Devotion. If you have been following the duo since their early Trusss releases or caught one of their relentless live sets, this is the news you have been waiting for. And from the sounds of it, the record is going to be something genuinely different.
What makes Pure Devotion sound so intriguing before you have even heard the full thing is how the Russells made it. The brothers have been unusually candid about their process, and their description of the recording sessions reads less like a press release and more like a fever dream from a scrapyard studio. In their own words: “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.” That is not a band reaching for the nearest synthesis plugin. That is two people actively trying to break things in the most creative way possible, then catching whatever comes out the other side.
Lockup, the lead single now available to stream, gives you your first real taste of where Pure Devotion is headed. Overmono have always sat at a fascinating crossroads between rave music, experimentalism and emotional weight, and Lockup signals that they are not about to simplify that formula anytime soon. The track carries the kind of textural grit you would expect from a process involving baked cymbals and blown speakers, sitting somewhere between physical and vulnerable in a way that very few electronic artists manage to pull off convincingly.
For anyone tracking Overmono new single 2025 releases, this one sets the bar high early in the year. The announcement of Pure Devotion puts them firmly back at the centre of conversation around serious electronic music new releases, at a time when a lot of the field is playing it safe. Tom and Ed Russell are very clearly not doing that. The Overmono album announcement brings with it real excitement about what a full-length record built from this kind of hands-on, destructive creativity could sound like across a complete body of work. Get Lockup in your ears now and start paying attention.