Album reviews: The Staves offer an extraordinary record, and Black Sabbath reissue is majestic

Good Woman has some heart-tugging moments from the Staveley-Taylor sisters, while  Black Sabbath Vol 4 will blow away the cobwebs 

The Staves' Good Woman, and Black Sabbath Vol 4.

The Staves: Good Woman (****)

Nearly a year into the pandemic, we have all been forced to reassess our relationship with death. That’s a strange way of reintroducing Watford all-sister folk trio The Staves but grief is one of the defining moods on their extraordinary new album – a record that contains multitudes even as it knocks the listener sideways with its gossamer-spun melodies.