Le Nova Twins are still the most pussy band of contemporary rock

“Afro hair, black roots / we all kick them,” they sing them in “Nova“, In an electrifying mix of hard rock, rap and punk, the formula that in recent years has allowed him to make a huge sequel to the public and critics at an international level, conquering the stages of the most prestigious world festivals. It seems a threat. And it is, in full style Nova Twins, namely Amy Love and Georgia South, The most cazzute girls of the contemporary world rock scene. With texts that speak of gender inequality and sexual harassment, the two musicians, both black, have written a new page of the genre since the debut of 2020 with “Who are the girls?”, “Who are the girls?”, Title that was a real declaration of intent. “Nova” is the single that anticipated the release of their new album, “Parasites & Butterflies”, The third of their career, just arrived in stores and platforms: They will present it in Italy on 30 September with a show at the Santeria Toscana in Milanunmissable. “When we started our concerts there were mainly white males. They have always been respectful and they are always welcome, but we noticed that before our success there were no women or color people at rock concerts. At the festivals we were the only ones on the bill that resembled us. Now at our shows under the stage there is a mix of different people who have fun», They say.

Between anticonformism and iconoclastic attitude

One (Amy, voice and guitar, 28 years old) has half of Iranian and half Nigerian origins. The other (Georgia, Cori and Basso, 27) has Jamaican origins. They have known each other since they were girls and in 2014 they founded their first band in London. With their music they have infused new life to the world rock scene. Unscrupulous, rebellious, committed. And above all battle feminists. Love and South have awakened a scene, that of rock, which seemed a bit downtown, breaded in clichés and clichésso much so that the support of a giant like Marshall, the iconic English house that designs and produces amplifiers, speakers and tools and which in 2017 founded a label of its own. They did it with all their anticoformism, their iconoclastic attitude and the originality of their project. “Parasites & Butterflies” is in perfect continuity with the previous “Who are the girls” and “Supernova”, the latter released in 2022, even if in the production cabin Rich Costeyalready alongside the Foo Fighterstook the place of Jim Roniss, who had joined the duo for the first works.

The comparison with Skunk Anansie and Skin

The third album of the Nova Twins is even richer than the characteristic Rock, metal, punk and hip-hop hybrid that brought Love and South to the front line in a genre still dominated by men, but the writing of the two girls becomes even more prior to in the past. Moreover, in recent years the Nova Twins have conquered increasingly large audiences, following yungblud, Wolf Alice, the Skunk Anansie on tour and performing on mega rally stages such as Glastonbury and Budapest’s Sziget. Their music carries on the legacy of the clit-rock (the clitride rock: the expression, a little vulgar but in any case representative of the group’s style) of the same Skunk Skin’s Skunkthat Amy Love also recalls vocally: “We want to represent young black women, but our project does not speak only to them: speaks to all the marginalized communities”. The twelve songs of the new album also move between rock and feminism, the Nova Twins have recorded it in Vermont, in the United States.

What do criticism and the great of rock say of them

The magazine Kerrang! He defined their sound “unique in the current rock scene”. The Guardian He wrote that their success “breaks the clichés about who can make rock music”. Amy and Georgia have also conquered giants like Elton John: “They are phenomenal”. Skin herself praised them for the pride with which they carry on their project, today that rock is definitely watered: «In a sense, we are passing by the witness. I think they would have more successful in America, because in England, record labels continue to say that black women should only sing R&B». In the video clip of Nova the two are unleashed in the midst of an all -female crowd: «It is a tribute to the women of our family and a refusal to apologize for what we are – they say – we have songs that do not speak only about politics. We have songs on the end of stories, on the killing of our boyfriends and on sex. Dug deep and you will see that we are only two normal girls who make their way into life».