Stats unveil new single "Own It"

Next week Stats will play their final show at The Lexington in London, on the same day as releasing their final album Powys 1999 (Deluxe Edition).

Powys 1999 (Deluxe Edition) was announced in September with a new song titled "All I Wanna Do Is Please Please Please", and today (10 November) Stats have delivered another new song from the deluxe record titled "Own It".

Frontman Ed Seed said of the song,""Own It" is one of three songs on the Powys 1999 (Deluxe Edition) revived from our long-deleted 2016 self-release Temping. This album was about the precariousness I'd felt for a long time, and saw in my friends and all around the city. For years my life hung off strings of temp office jobs, crappy flats and unstable relationships, none of it taking on any meaningful shape. I felt thin, insubstantial and fragile, like everything I did was temporary. This seemed like a common feeling then, perhaps even more so now."

Seed added, "On Robin Pearson’s cover photo I wore a see-through suit made out of organza by amazing tailor Nina Penlington to represent this fragility and instability. At my temp jobs I often had to wear suits, which felt like costumes I was transparently failing to fill, since they represented in fabric the permanence, purpose and prosperity that I lacked. We made about a hundred tapes, launched the album at our favourite venue the Lexington and had the songs online for a couple of years, then one day I deleted them. "Own It" was one of the best: we recorded it in live sessions at Real World Studios with our dear friend Ali Staton, who also mixed the song after Ant Whiting and I finished the production back in London."