the staves

Bigger, brighter and yet no less close and intricate – we know what staves strive for and that heightened anticipation only makes us adore the nuance and wider scope that they achieve on ‘good woman’ all the more.

You’d be pushing it to still call them folk now, but what they’ve gained in production and instrumentation is so perfectly pitched, it does anything but bury their songwriting and serves to make this their most accomplished release to date.

"On their brutal but brilliant third album, which was written and recorded during a period of turmoil, folk-singing sisters Emily, Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor face an uncomfortable truth. “I’m carrying weight but I know it’s not mine. With half a heart it’s hard to stop but I feel as though I’m a good woman,” they sing on the title track, placing the difficult pursuit of self-acceptance at the top of their agenda." 5/5 - the irish times