The Staves - Good Woman review

The Guardian 0

(Atlantic Records)
On their third release, the Watford trio’s beautiful songwriting thrums with frustration at powerlessness and passivity

On the surface, the Staveley-Taylor sisters embody a kind of staid girlishness: their sound composed of celestial three-part harmonies and gently finger-picked folk; their long unstyled hair and sensible blouses evoking a wholesome, homely air. Yet the Watford trio’s lyrics thrum with frustration at patriarchal ideals of female passivity and patience.