Stats preview second album with third single "Come With Me"

"Come With Me" follows earlier outings "Old Flames" and "Naturalise Me", and sees vocalist Ed Seed paint a vivid picture of growing up in the Welsh mountains.

Seed says, "I grew up in a granite house 1100 feet up, two miles from the nearest town. The sounds I remember strongest are buzzards’ cries and the roar of military jets - the RAF use the Welsh hills to train fighter pilots to fly low. Up there you get every kind of weather full in the face and you can see so far in every direction it feels like you’re floating on top of the world. Animals are born and die in the open fields. Black storms move quickly across the horizon over distant towns. You could have some big, scary ideas about the world when there’s no one around to temper you. Wherever you come from, whatever you want, whatever you lack - the mountain seems to promise it to you."

Powys 1999 will follow on from their 2019 debut LP Other People's Lives.

They recorded the album 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."