"If the debut album by Tor Maries, aka Billy Nomates, seethed, sometimes playfully, at aspects of modern life a la sometime collaborators Sleaford Mods, its follow-up Cacti turns the focus inwards. Enduring post-pandemic trauma, heartbreak, the millennial struggle: Cacti might show Maries in survival mode, but revealing vulnerability has seen her songwriting soften and come into its own".