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Billy Nomates announces her second album CACTI & shares new single & video, ‘balance is gone’

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, on January 13 via Invada Records.

Recorded at her flat and Invada Studios, CACTI is a huge step up for the artist. 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.”

Billy Nomates also shares a new single, ‘balance is gone’, which tackles those struggles head on, charting her attempts to find purpose. About the song, Tor says: “It’s a lot to ask, balance. Does anybody feel on kilter? Has anybody achieved all that harmony? I don’t think it’s a unique chase. And some days, it’s good to acknowledge it got up and left the room.”

CACTI:

  1. balance is gone
  2. black curtains in the bag
  3. blue bones (deathwish)
  4. CACTI
  5. saboteur forcefield
  6. roundabout sadness
  7. spite
  8. fawner
  9. same gun
  10. vertigo
  11. apathy is wild
  12. blackout signal

Photo credit Eddie Whelan

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