2023年エレクトロニック・ミュージック大本命!!
UKダンス・シーン新世代の騎手トラスとテセラによる兄弟ユニット
オーヴァーモノ待望のファースト・アルバム完成!!

今、最もアルバムが待たれていたUKベースやブレイクビーツ、テクノの最前線に立つトラスことエド・ラッセルとテセラことトム・ラッセルの兄弟によるデュオ、オーヴァーモノが〈XL Recordings〉から待望のデビュー・アルバム『Good Lies』をリリース!!

本作は確固たるプロップスを確立したユニットのこれまでの音楽キャリアが凝縮されており、新型コロナの規制撤廃とともにクラブ・シーンで大ヒットとなった「So U Kno」からコロンビアの新鋭R&B/ネオソウルシンガーソングライター、セイント・パンサー (St Panther)を迎えた「Walk Thru Water」、アルバムのティーザー・トラックとなった「Is U」などダンス・フロアの枠を超越した12曲を収録。
彼らの定番と言ってもいいアイコニックなボーカル・カットを織り込み、マルチ・ジャンルのエレクトロニック・サウンドに再構築されており、エレクトロニック・ミュージック界で最も権威のあるオンライン・メディアResident AdvisorやPitchfork、DJ Mag、Mixmagなど各メディアで絶賛されてきたデュオの魅力が発揮された作品となった。

発売・販売元 提供資料 （2023/01/20）

Welsh duo Overmono established themselves as a vital part of club music long before they released their full-length debut, Good Lies, in 2023. Individually, brothers Ed and Tom Russell had already made a major impact before they began releasing music together in 2016 -- Eds work as Tessela helped reintroduce jungle-influenced breakbeats into U.K. bass music, particularly thanks to the massive success of 2013s "Hackney Parrot," while Toms releases as Truss and MPIA3 were tightly engineered yet chaotic techno scorchers. Overmonos EPs contained moody, atmospheric experiments as well as left-field club weapons that refracted memories of 90s trance and rave music. Wistful R&B vocal samples and elements of woozy hip-hop became more present in later releases like 2022s Cash Romantic, and Good Lies continues in this sort of melancholic pop-influenced direction, while also including several surefire floor-fillers. Opener "Feelings Plain" unfolds and layers a few yearning lines ("I thought that we could reason, I needed somebody to believe in") before launching into the dubby garage shuffle of "Arla Fearn," which has some of the deepest, most mind-expanding bass theyve ever captured. "Good Lies" also has an addictive bassline along with its crisp snares, pleading vocals, and trancey tension. Downtempo tracks like "Cold Blooded" express a bleary, uneasy feeling as if youre coming home from a night out, still buzzed, trying to retain composure and enjoy yourself, but your mind is a blur from numerous dramatic situations piled up on each other. Overmonos music makes sense out of all of this mental haze, especially on the more straightforward, hook-driven tracks like "Is U" (which seems like a sequel to the previous years "Gunk") and "So U Kno" (a shortened version of a 2021 B-side that became a sort of pandemic hit, and was named track of the year by Resident Advisor). The voice of slowthai pops up beneath the billowing arpeggios and swirling distortion of "Calling Out," one last bittersweet reflection before the morning comes. ~ Paul Simpson

Rovi