Liverpools acclaimed sensual existentialist Brad Stank today announces the release of his resolutely romantic new album In The Midst of You on January 26th via his new label Sunday Best Recordings. He launches the album alongside the quintessentially Brad Natty Wine and its accompanying video. The new single Natty Wine neatly encapsulates the many charms that emerge throughout the album. With Brad backed by soulful female vocal harmonies, the songs jazzy psychedelia possesses a touch of twanging Americana, its warm and vibrant live instrumentation making for a song as relaxed as a Sunday afternoon in the sun. Its also notable for featuring Brads favourite percussive instrument deep in the mix: a wooden frog. He adds, This is a tongue-in-cheek song I wrote after being gifted a bottle of natural wine by a friend. Im a working-class boy who would much rather drink shitty lager at a party, like Stella or Holsten Pils. Ive got no right to be writing a song about natty wine but I was feeling bougie. Its a love song in disguise, I liked the imagery of lyrics like, Your sweet loving just keeps dripping from the vine. In The Midst of You finds Brad in late night lothario mode, his previous seductive style now taking a more resolutely romantic and perhaps surprisingly spiritual direction. The phrase in the midst of you comes from the Bible, Zephaniah 3:17, the full quote is something along the lines of God is in the midst of you – basically meaning that you have to look inward for peace or enlightenment, etc. the album is about that in parts and also, as always, I tried to put a romantic twist on it so that the in the midst of you is about being in love with somebody. Its kind of a juxtaposition but Ive always enjoyed taking spiritual messages and giving them a double meaning, explains Brad. Hopefully its a positive message of prostrating yourself to somebody, or to spirituality or something – but giving yourself fully to something, being in the midst

Tracklist:

1. Midnight Tears I
2. My New Heaven
3. Flicker On!
4. Don’t Go, Don’t Go
5. Long Distance
6. I Belong To You
7. Natty Wine
8. Cry Baby, Ft. Lord Apex
9. Midnight Tears II
10. In The Midst Of You

UPC: 197189725777
Label: Sunday Best Rec Ltd
Release Date: 1.26.24
Format: Vinyl