Billy Nomates – the project of the Bristol-based songwriter and producer Tor Maries – has announced her sophomore album, CACTI. The follow-up to her eponymous 2020 debut is slated for release on January 13 via Invada Records. Along with the announcement, Billy Nomates has shared a NWSPK.-directed video for the new single ‘balance is gone’. Check out the track, the album’s cover art, and tracklist below.
“Writing CACTI took just over a year,” Maries explained in a press release. “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.”
Of ‘balance is gone’, she said: “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 Cover Artwork:
CACTI Tracklist:
1. balance is gone
2. black curtains in the bag
3. blue bones (deathwish)
4. saboteur forcefield
5. roundabout sadness
6. spite
7. fawner
8. same gun
9. vertigo
10. apathy is wild
11. blackout signal