LP - Black Vinyl Repress. Housed in a Heavyweight Spined Sleeve. Featuring Printed Insert with Handwritten Lyrics. Includes download code.
Billy Nomates, the fierce, funny, outspoken force of nature who hails from Melton Mowbray and now flits between Bournemouth and Bristol, has arrived to rattle cages. The songs on her debut album all come from a place of defiance. Rebellion against Brexit. Against soul-sapping, dead-end jobs and zero-hours contracts. Against gender inequality, sexual harassment and festivals with obligatory female acts hidden in the small print.
Billy’s songs lampoon the same bleak reality satirised by her beloved Scarfolk website and explored so abrasively in the fringe theatre she finds solace in. Musically, there are snatches of Nick Cave’s rumbling sprechgesang; the “off-the-wall-ness of musicians like Captain Beefheart”; Sleaford Mods’ febrile post-punk; the groovesome lofi art-rock of Sonic Youth; and the brassy Americana of Emmylou Harris. What dominates, though, is a feeling of release. Of letting it all out. The track Supermarket Sweep features guest vocals by Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods.
Tracklist:
A1. Modern Hart
A2. Hippy Elite
A3. Happy Misery
A4. No
A5. Supermarket Sweep (feat. Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods)
A6. FNP
B1. Mudslinger
B2. Call In Sick
B3. Fat White Man
B4. Wild Arena
B5. Escape Artist