Overmono — Good Lies and the Complete Discography Guide
UK Bass & Electronics · Updated May 2026
Overmono are Tom Vek and Ed Russell — brothers, and previously solo producers as Truss and Tessela respectively. Their debut album Good Lies (2023) on XL Recordings arrived after a decade of acclaimed individual work and collaborative singles. Here is the complete guide to their catalogue.
The Solo Careers: Truss and Tessela
Before Overmono, Tom Russell released music as Truss on Restoration and his own R-Label Group — a series of records drawing from the Detroit techno tradition: hard, minimal, precise. Ed Russell as Tessela on Poly Kicks and other labels approached the same territory from a slightly different angle — more broken, more influenced by jungle and UK bass. "Hackney Parrot" (2013) became one of the most significant UK dance tracks of that year, a distorted breakbeat construction that connected the jungle revival to contemporary bass music. Understanding both solo projects gives the Overmono collaboration its context: the combination of Truss's techno precision and Tessela's breakbeat sensibility is exactly what the joint project sounds like.
Early Overmono: Singles and EPs (2017–2022)
The Overmono project began in 2017 with releases on Poly Kicks and XL Recordings — "So U Kno", "Arla Fearn", "Gunk" — each demonstrating the fusion of the two solo approaches: techno structure with broken rhythmic content, sub-bass weight drawn from UK bass, melodic elements that gave the music an emotional directness unusual in the surrounding scene. The "Fabric Presents Overmono" mix (2019) was the definitive statement of the DJ project before the debut album arrived. Boiler Room appearances from 2018 onward confirmed the live show as one of the most physically intense in UK dance music.
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Good Lies (2023) — XL Recordings
The debut album arrived on XL Recordings in May 2023 and immediately established itself as one of the most significant UK electronic releases of the year. Good Lies is fourteen tracks across fifty minutes — the full range of the Overmono vocabulary applied to an album-length format with complete confidence. "So Ruff So Tuff" is the obvious centrepiece: seven minutes of accelerating broken techno that distils the entire project into a single track. "Calling Out" demonstrated that the emotional range extended beyond pure physical impact. Good Lies debuted at number 2 in the UK Albums Chart — the highest chart position for a purely electronic debut album in years. Reference track: "So Ruff So Tuff".
Overmono Merch
The Overmono merch collection draws from the visual language of the XL Recordings era — glitch textures, grid structures and the kinetic energy of the live show. DTG printed on ring-spun cotton, dispatched from the UK. Browse the full range →
