Billy Nomates is theroject of UK producer and multi-instrumentalist Tor Maries, will release their new album entitled Metalhorse on May 16th Invada Records (the label of Portishead’s Geoff Barrow). Produced by James Trevascus and recorded at Paco Loco in Seville, Metalhorse is the first Billy Nomates album to be made in a studio and with a full band. Enlisting bass player Mandy Clarke (KT Tunstall, The Go! Team) and drummer Liam Chapman (Rozi Plain, BMX Bandits), who round out Billy Nomates live. Today the artist is sharing the new single “Plans.”

“From the second I started working on this album, every other month has brought this massive life shift that has either been weirdly magical and brilliant, or quite the opposite.” Maries says. “What I’m really looking for, now, is something in between.”

The album is a balancing of extremes, reckoning with loss, material insecurity, and trying to stay true to yourself against an increasingly unpredictable backdrop of global chaos. The scales could easily have tipped towards darkness, but the more Maries has had to weather, the more precious those smaller moments of happiness have become. That sentiment comes through on “Plans,” an explosively simple rock track that Maries envisages as like “getting on the Waltzers at the end of the world.” Combining Billy Nomates’ unique tenacity with the open road liberation of Bruce Springsteen, “Plans” is a love song to love itself.

Maries says of the track:

“As I get older, and I’ve just had this diagnosis, and the world’s a fucking mess, the idea of being able to have fun or fall in love with someone is the ultimate rebellion, isn’t it? It just feels totally radical these days. And it seems to happen less as life gets more complicated. Things are only going to get worse, there’s no point being blue sky about it, but there’s also fun to be found in this two minute whizz around that we all have.”

pre-order Metalhorse HERE