The Staves release a new EP, ‘Facing West’ on the 29th April 2013 through Atlantic Records. It features two new songs. ‘Facing West’ is taken from their acclaimed debut album, ‘Dead & Born & Grown’.
2012 was a breakthrough year for The Staves. Their debut album received near faultless reviews from the British media, and following a series of US, European and UK tours with Bon Iver, and a sold-out tour of the UK in their own right, the three sisters have rightly begun to reap the rewards of their relentless years of touring. Their year concluded with a whistle-stop tour of India.
Ahead of their touring commitments in 2013 they release a new record. This forthcoming EP features long-standing live favourite, and one of the band’s oldest (and finest) songs ‘Facing West’. It will also include a new song called ‘What Good Am I?’ and a cover of Turin Breaks’ ‘Rainy City’.
The three sisters’ songwriting remains as striking as it is exquisite, a melding of still, bright English folk and sublime West Coast pop that, performed live, is capable of plunging an audience into awed silence.
‘Dead & Born & Grown’ is a record that showcases their songwriting and their voices to quietly beautiful effect, but undeniably it’s out on the road that those voices are at the most affecting. Yet as the recent critical acclaim suggests, this album encapsulates exactly where The Staves are at, as they weave themselves through state to state, and county to county.
Following a series of shows at this year’s SXSW in Austin, Texas, the band tour the UK and Europe this Spring.
The Staves Live:
18th April - Revelation St Mary's, Ashford
19th April - Academy 2, Oxford
20th April - Arts Centre, Norwich
22nd April - Komedia, Bath
23rd April - The Gate, Cardiff
24th April - The Scala, London
25th April - The Scala, London
27th April - Privatclub, Berlin
28th April - Paradiso, Bitterzoet
29th April - AB Club, Brussels
30th April - Point FMR, Paris
2nd May - The Leadmill, Sheffield
3rd May - Gorilla, Manchester
4th May –Trinity Church, Leeds (Live At Leeds)