The Staves have announced their new album All Now, produced by John Congleton is to be released on 22nd March 2024.
The Staves have announced a UK and Ireland tour which headline show at Button Factory in Dublin, along with shows in Limerick, Cork and Belfast along with news of their new album.
Irish dates:
Tuesday May 28th – Mandela Hall, Belfast
Wednesday May 29th – Dolan’s Limerick
Friday May 31st – Button Factory, Dublin
Sunday June 2nd – Live at St. Luke’s Cork
Tickets €30 for Dublin including booking charges on sale Friday, 1st December at 10am from singularartists.ie.
The announcement comes in after the release of singles ‘You Held It All’, and ‘All Now’ a more electronic pop sound for the folk sisters.
It is the band’s first recording without the duo’s sister, Emily Staveley-Taylor (who has stepped back from the road to look after her children).
Accompanying today’s release is the album title-track, a majestic, pulsating beast that leans into the sense of self-rediscovery that weaves throughout the album itself, a distillation of the cacophony of our modern society, understanding the overwhelming nature of just trying to get through it all, but accepting it and not shying away.
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, 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, but also still processing the death of their mother and other seismic changes: Emily taking 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 – chronic pain and a series of operations due to Endometriosis 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 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.
Since 2012, when The Staves first introduced themselves with those crystalline three-part harmonies and their lilting folk-informed songcraft, the ‘classic’ Staves sound has also undergone subtle but noteworthy change.
