Three days with Pure Devotion and I’ve stopped opening Spotify for anything else. Overmono’s second album landed last Thursday — eleven tracks, forty minutes — and it rearranged the rest of my August. Their debut was a controlled detonation. This one is looser, warmer, and it wins every argument the first record started.
1. Overmono - Knight In Shining Prada (feat. John Joseph Holt)
BBC Radio 1 gave this the Hottest Record tag and for once the hype was underselling it. John Joseph Holt sings over a beat that lands somewhere between 2-step and a headnod nobody’s named yet, and his voice treats the tempo like a polite suggestion. The kick pattern under the second verse is the part I keep going back to — three hits where the drum and the vocal lock, and the rest of the beat falls around them like it knows its place.
2. Overmono - Slowmotion
Everything downshifts. The bass gets wide and deliberate, the drums thin out, and the whole album exhales for four minutes. It sounds like the walk home when the night is over and you’re carrying your jacket in one hand. I’ve had this on at 6am twice this week and it fit both times.
3. Overmono - Even Angels Ghost (feat. Kindora)
Kindora’s first line and the whole track reorganises around her. The synths pulse instead of punch, and the gaps between her vocal runs are where the song lives. On my third play I caught myself holding my breath through the breakdown without planning to. Didn’t notice until the bass came back.
4. Overmono - Laxbrook
The drums come back fractured and urgent, landing off the grid in a way that makes the whole track lurch forward. It builds, crests, pulls back, builds again. First listen I counted two drops. By the fourth I realised it was one long refusal to resolve.
5. Overmono - Gem Lingo (ovr now) (feat. Ruthven)
Ruthven carries the last dancefloor moment on the album before the whole thing drifts into comedown territory. The production is warm and slightly blurred, like the bass got left in the sun. Someone who doesn’t listen to electronic music heard the first ten seconds from across the room and turned around to face the speaker. That told me everything.
Forty minutes, zero filler, three days and counting.