Billy Nomates - CactiBilly Nomates, the project of the Bristol based songwriter, producer and multi instrumentalist Tor Maries releases 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

This release features the group‰۪s sole album

aged 10-14

summed up by Astor as "a description of an injurious medical condition that often affects the male of the species"

As it happens

From then on we had success

the album swirls with synths and programmed drum loops for the first time

yet I was somehow unable to accept this new environment

Organ fades in and FX guitars

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have always greeted creative boundaries with the same respect bulldozers visit upon anything foolish enough to stray into their path

ear-splitting rock & roll

Alternative ‘inverse’ outer sleeve *

was written in an immediate and visceral response to the killings of four students at Kent State