Stats announce second album ‘Powys 1999’ and share lead single ‘Naturalise Me’

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‘Other People’s Lives’.Lead single ‘Naturalise Me’, released today (September 9), is a shimmering rush of electro-pop goodness, which finds lead singer Ed Seed questioning his roots.“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,” he explained.“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 [Wales] 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 in a residential.