‘Future is female and we gotta rise up and take it,’ declares Janine Shilstone on XX, the rousing closing track on VUKOVI’s bold third album NULA. It’s both a fitting conclusion to the conceptual storyline that the whole record is based around – which we’ll get to – but even more so, a brilliant, empowering message that will surely see the band continue their upwards trajectory. Since we threw our support behind then-new band VUKOVI and put them on the Kerrang! Tour in 2017 (back then as a quartet; in 2022 they’re made up of Janine and guitarist Hamish Reilly), the pair have grown to become a formidable live force and an exciting musical proposition. And now, following 2020 second album Fall Better, things have properly fallen into place, with a record t...