Ah, triplets… No, but close. They're Emily, Camilla and Jessica Staveley-Taylor, otherwise known as the Staves – three sisters from leafy Watford. They sang together as children, growing up on a diet of the Beatles and 60s Americana. Then as teenagers they formed the Staves, playing gloriously winsome folk for the regulars in their local pub.

Not more folk. Aren't we over that? It is folk, but you'll like it. The songs are gentle and dreamy, and they harmonise like no siblings we've ever met.

So it's the big time, is it? Not quite, but getting there. In January they finished a US tour with the Grammy award-winning Civil Wars and have now completed a support slot on Michael Kiwanuka's UK tour.

Sound like hippies to me. They're not, but they do have a certain 1970s Laurel Canyon glamour – it's all flowing hair and acoustic guitars.

Can we catch them live in the UK any time soon? Next month they're travelling the breadth of the country for their first UK headline tour. And then there are the festivals – they were made for sunset festival slots.

They say: "If we weren't in music we'd probably be in taxidermy."

We say: They fill a girl-shaped gap in the folk world.

The Staves release The Motherlode EP on 16 April through Atlantic Records (thestaves.com)