Emily, Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor are blessed not just with similar genes, but also beautifully complimentary voices, a shared taste for mournful American folk music, and that quiet authority that Laura Marling uses to keep snarky critics at arm’s length. Not that they have had too much of that sort of thing to bother about, having wooed a succession of audiences - not to mention Jo Whiley and Lauren Laverne, who’ve both had them in for sessions - with their melancholy muse.
And it’s by no means a British affair. Having supported Bon Iver on tour in 2012, they managed to convince Justin Vernon to produce their second album If I Was, which came out in March this year. If anything, he’s pushed those glorious harmonies even higher in the mix, while bringing in electric guitars, brass, fuzz bass and proper drums to expand their harmonic ideas with thrilling new arrangements. And what better place to showcase such exquisite visions than the mystic Vale of Avalon?
Emily, Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor are blessed not just with similar genes, but also beautifully complimentary voices, a shared taste for mournful American folk music, and that quiet authority that Laura Marling uses to keep snarky critics at arm’s length. Not that they have had too much of that sort of thing to bother about, having wooed a succession of audiences - not to mention Jo Whiley and Lauren Laverne, who’ve both had them in for sessions - with their melancholy muse.
And it’s by no means a British affair. Having supported Bon Iver on tour in 2012, they managed to convince Justin Vernon to produce their second album If I Was, which came out in March this year. If anything, he’s pushed those glorious harmonies even higher in the mix, while bringing in electric guitars, brass, fuzz bass and proper drums to expand their harmonic ideas with thrilling new arrangements. And what better place to showcase such exquisite visions than the mystic Vale of Avalon?
