"the colours of another sky"

"MEXICO" - The Staves

Jessica, Camilla and Emily Stavely-Taylor are three sisters from Watford, formed in 2010. They work with Communion Records and ended last year wrapping up a tour with Bon Iver, as well as releasing their debut album.

This is their single "Mexico", wistful and longing for both proximity and distance. Their vocals brush lightly over a simple pattern plucked on an acoustic guitar, lyrics that whisper of the past and the future, "Lover, you may cause me tears". It is bittersweet and lovely, so minimal that it sounds almost just casually sung beside a campfire, with only gentle percussion weaved in, every instrument in the song second nature to their voices.

There is this sense of togetherness and perfect precision you hear when families sing together in flawless harmony, and that isn't missing in the sisters' music; their voices run together perfectly, like streams into a river into an ocean.

Their first album is "Dead & Born & Grown", and was released last year, and you can find more of them here.