The FADER Interview: Overmono on why they prefer sampling vocals to recording them

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Tom and Ed Russell (Overmono) are this week’s guests on The FADER Interview podcast. The Welsh electronic duo joined The FADER’s Arielle Lana LeJarde last week in advance of their first studio album, Good Lies, dropping Friday via XL Recordings.

Over the course of a deep conversation about their long-awaited full-length debut, the Russells touched on why they’ve never had a strong urge to record original vocals on their tracks, preferring to stick with sampling.

Read Next: Overmono share new song “Calling Out” “We’ve never recorded a vocal, not intentionally,” Ed claimed. “There’s a sonic quality to samples we’re both really into.

It’s very difficult to get when you record a vocal. With sampling, you’re able to reach into other people’s… Someone else might’ve expressed an emotion in a very confident manner that we wouldn’t have felt as comfortable doing.