Overmono just dropped a profoundly heartfelt new single, “Knight in Shining Prada,” featuring writer and artist, John Joseph Holt.
The U.K. duo, brothers Tom and Ed Russell, crafted the song using a voice note that Holt sent them in honor of his late brother.
“My brother Thomas Edward Holt had an incredibly adventurous soul that inspired everyone around him,” Holt wrote in an Instagram post. “He took his own life on January 10th, 2017, aged 31. There is no easy way to say that. You bury the pain deep in your heart and the words get stuck in your throat when you try to speak, as the world carries on around you… To make something so positive out of something so crushing is the greatest gift, and I can’t thank Tom, Ed and @williamaspden enough for bringing this song into existence.”
“Knight in Shining Prada” is a standout single on the duo’s upcoming album, Pure Devotion, coming out on August 7 via XL Recordings.
The Russell brothers said they worked on dozens of versions of the single before settling on one they wanted to put out.
“About a year ago he sent us a voice note with a spoken word stream of consciousness that just completely floored us,” they wrote. “We played John’s vocal as loud as we could and sat there with a prophet and 303 listening to it over and over again as the sun came up and the first version started to appear. 83 versions later and it’s done.”
Other tracks on the album including “Lockup,” “Even Angles Ghost,” and “Gem Lingo (ovr now)” have also been released and showcase some of the experimental production techniques that Overmono has adopted, including playing a synth through an old train station speaker, blowing up speakers and baking a crash cymbal in an oven.
Check out the new single, video and upcoming tour dates below.
Overmono on tour:
Friday, July 31 – O Days, Copenhagen, DK
Saturday, August 1 – Viva Festival, Puglia, IT (DJ Set)
Friday, August 7 – Old Royal Naval College, London, UK
Saturday, August 8, – Pop Messe, Brno, Czechia
Saturday, August 15 – Grape Festival, Trenčín, Slovakia
Saturday, August 29 – Lost Village, Lincoln, UK
Friday, September 25 – Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, US
Sunday, September 27 – Portola Festival, San Francisco, US
Thursday, October, 8 – Cermak Hall, Chicago, US
Friday, October 9 – Terminal 5, New York, US
Saturday, October 10 – History, Toronto, Canada
Wednesday, October 28 – Alexandra Palace, London, UK
Friday, October 30 – The Warehouse Project, Manchester, UK
Sunday, November 1 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK
Tuesday, November 10 – ING Arena, Brussels, BE
Wednesday, November 11 – Gashouder, Amsterdam, NL
Thursday, November 12 – Uber Eats Music Hall, Berlin, DE
Saturday, November 14 – L’Olympia, Paris, FR
