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    The Staves share a lyric video for “I Don't Say It But I Feel It” from their 2024 album, All Now. “This was the first song we recorded for the album, and we had just written it so there’s a freshness and an immediacy to it for us,” The Staves’ Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor say. “The song is about passing surges of emotions and memories that often don't get expressed or articulated. It’s exploring that state of stillness on the outside but with a flurry of things happening below the surface and how, often, we don’t let on what we’re really feeling most of the time or how much we’re feeling it. Even the question ‘how are you?’ can prove difficult to find the answer to ... The song came from a train ride down to Brighton with friends with the scenery whizzing by—the transient flashes as things come in and out of focus. The song is built around this two-chord pattern that kind of chugs along and motors through, picking out these jolts of feeling or memory that rush by.”


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    The music video for the title track to The Staves' 2024 album, All Now, is directed by James Arden and inspired by the influential British music television program Old Grey Whistle Test. “It’s a stream of consciousness about frustration and feeling overwhelmed with modernity,” the duo—Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor—says of the title track. “Kind of a rejection of the performative way we have to express ourselves now in order for it to be deemed valid. We were in love with the old footage of singer songwriters performing in shows like the Old Grey Whistle Test, and the way the audience hung on the singer’s every word. We wanted to play with the idea of ‘All Now’ being an ideology and a message. Something that came from artists and creatives, but is then hijacked and commodified by corporate creeps, preaching the message to gain power.”


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    The Staves perform "Waiting on Me to Change," from their 2021 album, Good Woman, from the London venue Lafayette.


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    The Staves perform "Failure" from their 2021 album, Good Woman. The video was made in London's Sunbeam Studios, directed by Olivia Eames. 


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    The Staves perform an intimate live rendition of "Satisfied," from their 2021 album, Good Woman.


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    The Staves perform the title track to their 2021 album, Good Woman. The video was made in London's Sunbeam Studios, directed by Olivia Eames. The band says: "We’d like to thank our amazing band, Glyn, Marcus, Chris and Rob, and all the crew involved for making this shoot possible whilst observing social distancing rules and keeping all of us super safe."


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    Here is a video for the title track from The Staves & yMusic's The Way Is Read. Directed by Robert Edridge-Waks.


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    Here is "Trouble on My Mind," from The Staves & yMusic's The Way Is Read. Video directed by yMusic flutist Alex Sopp.


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    The Staves' music video for "Tired As Fuck" was directed by Dan Huiting. “We fell down an Andy Warhol hole (a Warhole if you will) recently and particularly loved his series of screen tests and moving portraits,” described the band. “They're just static shots of a subject staring at the camera. It's amazing how compelling that is. Just looking at someone for 20 minutes or so. We also bought an old overhead projector and really wanted to incorporate it by projecting these weird shapes on Camilla's face.”


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    "With this video we wanted to make something that was honest, simple, unpolished and that represented how the song feels to us," say The Staves of this video to the title track of their 2016 EP, Sleeping In A Car. "No fuss. No 'performance.' We filmed it ourselves over a few evenings. We were particularly tired at that time, so sleeping in a car wasn't too difficult. I think Jess was actually ill. If anything, this is an anti-video."


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