Billy Nomates - CACTI [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: NV272CD
Barcode: 5051083174022
Release Date: 13 Jan 2023
Genre: Indie/Alternative

 Billy Nomates, the project of the Bristol-based songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Tor Maries, announces the release of her much anticipated second studio album, ‘CACTI’, via Invada Records.
 Recorded at her flat and Invada Studios, ‘CACTI’ is a huge step up for the artist, who received widespread critical acclaim for her
eponymous 2020 debut album, with heavy airplay across BBC Radio 6 Music and support from luminaries such as Iggy Pop, Florence Welsh and Steve Albini.
 Though every bit as unrepentant as Billy Nomates’ debut, ‘CACTI’ comes from a much more exposed place and sees Tor further develop her instinctive, inventive songwriting and production. Unafraid to wade into the traumas of the past two years and the eerie sense of apathy that lingers, alongside heartache and more political themes, the 12-track collection openly confronts uncomfortable truths, as Tor puts it, “70-80% of being bold is about being vulnerable as hell.”
 Maries said: “Writing ‘CACTI’ took just over a year. I wrote very intensely and then none at all. (This seems to be the way I work best). I picked up old drum machines, mapped out things in my kitchen with the same small micro keyboard I always use and then raided the cupboards and rooms at Invada Studios, to play and experiment with old synths, an upright piano, this weird organ thing. I hope everyone finds their own narrative in ‘CACTI’. I think it’s about surviving it all.”
 ‘CACTI’ features ‘blue bones’ and ‘balance is gone’, both of which have been playlisted at BBC 6 Music.
 The CD is presented as a card sleeve with 12 page lyric booklet.  The vinyl comes housed in a spined sleeve with double sided printed insert.
 TV - Later… with Jools Holland.
 Press - Reviews in Mojo, Uncut, Loud & Quiet, The Idler, Record Collector. Features in The Guardian, Brooklyn Vegan, Crack, Loud & Quiet, NME, The Gentlewoman, The New Cue, Sound On Sound, Headliner, Yorkshire Post, Yuck.
 Radio - 6 Music A-list, Nemone Journeys In Sound special, Lauren Laverne While You Were Sleeping premiere, New Music Fix playlist.
 Online - NME, Brooklyn Vegan, Dork, Clash, DIY, Louder Than War.
 Tourdates - April 17 Tramshed Cardiff, 19 Rescue Rooms Nottingham, 20 New Century Hall Manchester, 21 Stylus Leeds, 22 St Lukes Glasgow, 24 Boiler Shop Newcastle, 25 Institute 1 Birmingham, 27 Kentish Town Forum London, 28 Chalk Brighton, 29 Marble Factory Bristol.

Tracklisting
balance is gone
black curtains in the bag
blue bones (deathwish)
CACTI
saboteur forcefield
roundabout sadness
spite
fawner
same gun
vertigo
apathy is wild
blackout signal

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