Stats announce second album with lead single "Naturalise Me"

"Naturalise Me" is the group's first new outing since last year's debut album Other People's Lives.

Lead singer Ed Seed says of the single, "Growing up I felt like I didn’t fit in or belong where I was born and raised. I’m sure a lot of people feel this way. When it comes to the countryside we often talk about the natural - and by implication the unnatural - as if we are talking about the real, and by implication the fake. I felt somehow fake in Powys as a born incomer, un-local, neither Welsh nor English. But by looking at the landscape I started to realise the construction and extraction behind it, and the myth of its naturalness."

Powys 1999 was recorded at a residential studio near Powys. Seed says, "I knew we had to go back to Wales to make this album. I also knew I didn't want it to be sunny and meaninglessly pretty. It had to be October, when the weather's unpredictable. I wanted the band to be able to step outside and feel that."

He adds, "This record isn’t exactly about Powys or 1999, but I was reaching for that landscape and thinking about some of the people who I grew up with, and especially the different reasons people came from elsewhere to live there."

Tracklist:

1. Come With Me
2. On The Tip Of My Tongue
3. Old Flames
4. Naturalise Me
5. Kiss Me Like It’s Over
6. Out Of Body
7. Travel With Me Through This Ghost World
8. Innocence
9. The Truth Is Naked
10. If Only