The Staves’ new album, All Now, produced by John Congleton (Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen), is out now, marking their debut album as the duo of Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor, after their sister Emily’s departure. “There was a delayed reaction to trauma and these big changes out of your control,” Jess says of the period after the February 2021 release of their album Good Woman, as the band—like everyone—was forced to sit with their thoughts. Struggling after two years of deep solitude and pain, The Staves did what they know how to do best: they got back to writing with the idea of going back to basics and focusing almost solely on each other and their guitars as a starting point.
The Staves’ new album, All Now, produced by John Congleton (Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen), is out now on Nonesuch Records in the US, available here. The album marks the band’s debut album as the duo of Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor following their sister Emily’s departure.
The Staves kick off a North American headline tour at Union Stage in Washington, DC, on April 7, with shows in New York City, Cambridge, Toronto, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. See below for details and tickets, or visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
You can take a quick look inside the All Now vinyl here:
"In making this album, I've realised the value of re-evaluating your life regularly," Camilla tells BBC News in a feature on their new album. Jessica confirms: "Sometimes you need to shake off the excess baggage and enjoy the moment. And I think that's what happened in the making of this record." You can read the article here.
All Now emerges from a period of chaos for the band that was followed by a period of enforced quiet. The Staves released their third album, Good Woman, in February 2021; it was an album of love and loss, written during a disconcerting period of turmoil and pain. “There was a delayed reaction to trauma and these big changes out of your control,” says Jess of the period that came after Good Woman, as the band—like the rest of us—were forced to sit with their thoughts.
The Staveley-Taylors were also still processing the death of their mother and other seismic changes: Emily took a backseat on this album (while still contributing vocals on a handful of tracks) to focus on motherhood, while Camilla reckoned with her own mental and physical health issues, including chronic pain and a series of operations due to endometriosis, which began to take an increasing toll.
Struggling after two years of deep solitude and pain following the release of Good Woman, The Staves did what they know how to do best: they got back to writing with the idea of going back to basics and focusing almost solely on each other and their guitars as a starting point.
It began with Jess, navigating this new landscape by harnessing her creativity on her own, at first in the studio in Hackney at the end of 2022, then slowly luring Camilla back to the next chapter of The Staves, before reaching out to Congleton, who the band had worked with on Good Woman.
THE STAVES NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
| Apr 7 | Union Stage | Washington, DC |
| Apr 8 | Bowery Ballroom | New York, NY |
| Apr 11 | The Sinclair | Cambridge, MA |
| Apr 13 | The Opera House | Toronto, ON |
| Apr 15 | Lincoln Hall | Chicago, IL |
| Apr 16 | Varsity Theater | Minneapolis, MN |
| Apr 19 | Tractor Tavern | Seattle, WA |
| Apr 20 | Doug Fir Lounge | Portland, OR |
| Apr 22 | Great American Music Hall | San Francisco, CA |
| Apr 24 | Troubadour | West Hollywood, CA |
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