English duo Nova Twins are the zeitgeist-capturing polymath pioneers that our times have been waiting for. Whether pushing the MOBO Awards to create a category for POC alt. acts, teaming up with No Music On A Dead Planet and Oxfam to play for environmental change, working with Dr. Martens to raise money for The Black Curriculum or aiming to inspire a new wave of young, diverse talent, Amy Love and Georgia South are much more than one of the UK’s most exciting bands – they are changemakers.
Formed in London in 2014, the two childhood friends came together to create something that destroyed boundaries and defied expectations. A clash of ideas from the worlds of punk, rap, pop, hard rock and beyond, their sound is one that smashes genres but showcases the many facets of the duo and where they’re from.
They have battled through the old guard of rock’s narrow-minded expectations. Their debut album Who Are The Girls? planted their flag as outliers on a mission. One of the UK’s best live bands and fiercest festival acts reach a very broad church, without diluting what they’re all about.
Nova Twins new album Supernova showcases a fighting spirit. Co-produced predominantly with Jim Abbiss, who worked on their first album, Supernova was previewed by the brutal and unforgiving blast of cyberpunk on Antagonist. Supernova is a piece of work that’s fearlessly itself – once again playing with genre and rich in different moods, textures, and layers, all the while retaining that purity and simplicity of the essential elements: South, Love, bass, guitars, drums, and a whole lot of energy. Ultimately, it captures the tension and release that we’ve all been through lately while imagining what’s to come.
In the lead-up to their upcoming appearance at the Good Things Festival, we caught up with Love and South to find out what tunes one of the most unique and diverse acts in the world have been blasting lately.
Amy Love and Georgia South’s 'Go To' Tunes On Tour
Melody Gardot – My One and Only Thrill
Georgia South: "I would definitely say Melody Gardot’s ‘My One And Only Thrill’ because that's
just so calming and romantic and you can look out the window and pretend you're in a movie. We love it. It's an incredible album. I can't wait to move us to put it on in winter when the setting and the terrain is a bit different."
Gregory Porter – Be Good
Amy Love: "Another one we haven't listened to as much, but this one does remind me of a tour when we first started off. We were two young girls and Georgia’s parents would turn up in a big family van. We weren't even 18 at the point and we'd turn up to venues and drive around France. That's where we would gig a lot in France also at one point. Georgia's Dad would always
play Gregory Porter Be Good’ and that album would do the trick when we were tired or needed to unwind. It was calming."
HO99O9 – Mega City Nine
Georgia South: "But then also touring there was that we do listen, we made a playlist called 'Voice For The Unheard' and Ho99or ‘Mega City Nine’ is a song that we still play before we go on stage. We've done it for the last, say three or four years. We love Ho99or so that song is a good tour song for sure. I love that you guys get us pumped."
Limp Bizkit - Dad Vibes
Georgia South: "We always play like certain songs to get us pumped. Another one is Limp Bizkit, ‘Dad Vibes’. We got obsessed with this song. Like if we were so tired and put this song on, it’ll pump us up again."
Fever 333 - Burn It
Georgia South: We also like Fever333’s song, ‘Burn It’. We love putting this on before we go on stage.
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Georgia South and Amy Love: "Arctic Monkeys 'AM' is an album we've been playing in the van a lot recently. That's a new one for us to see in terms of lately. Cause obviously it’s an old album, but we've just been feeling it again lately."
Supernova by Nova Twins is out now. The band will appear at the Good Things Festival in December.
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