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Billy Nomates, the project of the Bristol-based songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Tor Maries, today shares a new track, “vertigo”. Described by MOJO in their 4* lead review as “finding itself on an unexpected precipice” and Uncut in their 9/10 review as “sounding uncannily like a post-punk Kim Carnes”, “vertigo” is the final track to be shared prior to the release of her much anticipated second studio album, CACTI, out this Friday 13 January 2023 via Invada Records. 

The track follows the release of three BBC Radio 6 Music A-listed singles including the gentle, 80s-influenced, synth-pop bop “blue bones” which was a celebration of life, the spiky, synth-powered “spite”, and “balance is gone”, which charted Tor’s attempts to find purpose, as well as “saboteur forcefield”, on which Tor lays bare her propensity for self-sabotage.

Speaking about “vertigo”, Tor offers: “i think vertigo scratches around the soul crushing apathy you can feel for achieving or feeling life’s big things…”