It just feels right to watch Nova Twins in London; it’s the hometown show, the last date of the tour, and our first chance to see their new record live. It’s also a chance for any fence-sitters to fully embrace the magnificent contrasts and contradictions which bloom like origami flowers from a band who remake the scene in their own image with every chance they have.

Naturally, their set is dominated by their latest album – they play almost the entirety of ‘Parasites and Butterflies’ – but that’s not a criticism in the slightest. We finally get to see the vision behind their songs realised, to be experienced in their full glory. The chorus to ‘Black Roses’ rings out like a war cry, with siren stances that break into alien riffs. Each track cracks open the urban jungle, giving us a taste of the cyborg future. ‘Sandman’ appears halting and daring, seemingly constructed from hidden complex machinery. Meanwhile ‘Piranha’ dredges whole worlds with each harbinger line, its menace and…

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