Life is defined by the pendulum’s swing. Be it the routine shifts between mundanity and excitement, the interminable lurching from triumph into tragedy, or the metronomic heartbeats of our days and nights, it’s this energy and duality that drives Bristol post-punks NAUT. “Music is inextricably linked to the time – the zeitgeist – in which it’s made,” frontman Gavin Laubscher explains of how that eternal undulation has dragged goth-rock from the shadows, harking to the genre’s ’80s heyday in a way that also feels contemporary. “There’s recession. There’s grinding politics. We’re the closest we’ve been to nuclear Armageddon since the Cuban Missile Crisis. If you look at the world now, this current wave is born of a similar mindset to the first.” Where contemporaries like Gra...