inside the NOVA TWINS' CELESTIAL AWAKENING

Watching a solar eclipse the day before recording third album Parasites & Butterflies convinced the Nova Twins' Amy Love and Georgia South of the power of their new record's opposing themes of light and darkness, as they tell Rolling Stone UK

- BY ZOYA RAZA-SHEIKH

IT’S A LACK-LUSTRE Tuesday morning when Nova Twins duo Amy Love and Georgia South fizzle into view and onto my screen. The pair have had a raucous week, jumping from a buzzing show at Omeara, London a rite-of-passage venue that’s hosted everyone from Ethel Cain to Gracie Abrams — to scrubbing up their new, sharp, yin-and-yang third album Parasites & Butterflies. Powering through their non-stop schedule, the pair readily have their phones whipped out, dialling in separately from their homes on the south coast of England and settling down for the interview almost in uniform sync.

It’s not often you catch a glimpse of the inner lives of Love and South. The artists are best known for boot-stomping on stage, wielding flashy, brightly coloured electric guitars while grinning confidently as they growl and rip through their brash tunes. Their tracks simmer with wizard-like production and riff off expert meshings of nu-metal and throaty rap-rock, as well as witty, off-the-wall skits and the kind of candour that sucker-punches you in the gut.

Nova Twins have harnessed their DIY roots and camaraderie built from years of friendship and quickly shifted gear to become long-time bandmates. Together, they’ve morphed and shifted through different phases — they formed their early bass-y project, slickly named BRAATS, in 2014 — and, years later, they’re still side by side.