Αναλυτική Περιγραφή
Metalhorse is Billy Nomates’ third studio release,
following 2023’s critically acclaimed, CACTI, and her
self-titled 2020 debut. A concept album revolving
around the image of a dilapidated funfair,
representing the tumultuousness of life – risk and
pleasure, danger and exhilaration.The 11 new songs here explore blues, folk and pianodriven arrangements that take Billy Nomates’ stark
punk sound in a more pastoral direction. Metalhorse
is the first Billy Nomates album to be made in a
studio and with a full band, the line-up inc. bass
player Mandy Clarke (KT Tunstall, The Go! Team)
and drummer Liam Chapman (Rozi Plain, BMX
Bandits) plus a special feature from The Stranglers
frontman Hugh Cornwell on “Dark Horse Friend”.Metalhorse 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. Metalhorse
begs the listener to find their own funfair; there will
always be things that feel perilous. At the same time,
you have to marvel at the lights while they’re still on.
Dancing with those feelings of uncertainty and joy,
Metalhorse is awash with both pain and
perseverance.
