THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The Staves’ new album All Now, produced by John Congleton, is their first recording without the duo’s sister Emily Staveley-Taylor, who wasn’t present for touring on the last run, stepping back from the road with the birth of her first baby (since joined by a sibling).
All Now emerges, bold and bright, from a period of chaos, followed by a period of enforced quiet, for the band. 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 Jessica Staveley-Taylor of the period after Good Woman, as the band — like the rest of us — were forced to sit with their thoughts, while also processing the death of their mother and other seismic changes: Emily taking a backseat to focus on motherhood, while Camilla reckoned with her own mental and physical health issues — chronic pain and a series of operations due to endometriosis.
After two years of deep solitude and pain following Good Woman, The Staves did what they know how to do best and got back to writing. The idea was to go against most of what they’d been doing for the last few years by 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, slowly luring Camilla back to the next chapter of The Staves, before reaching out once again to super-producer Congleton (Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen), who also worked on Good Woman.
The result? An album as rich and honest as the most profound music The Staves have scattered across albums for the last decade, collected here into something special.”
