The Vogts Sisters - Homeward (2016)

Homeward (June 2016) is a humble attempt to truly define who the Vogts Sisters are as artists and musicians. Staying faithful to their love for sad songs, Homeward, calls on their pure and graceful harmonies that reach deep into the heart and soul with themes of love, truth, and honor. This first self-produced album compiles ten original works, including award-winning songs, Remain and Wayward Heart, fully embracing the Vogts Sisters distinct style and inspiring growth as acoustic folk artists.
"[The Vogts Sisters'] instrumentation is various combinations of acoustic guitar, violin, and mandolin. The style is unadorned and simple, but therein lies its power, as it acts as a base for their most prominent feature: the vocals...The sisters sing in well-matched soprano (Abigail) and alto (Maggie), and every song is marvelously harmonized and skyward-reaching. And with this framework, the sisters conjure images of haunting clarity.
"It’s this understated darkness lurking at the edges of the sisters’ work that lends it some of its greatest value. The temptation here might have been to use their lush voices to make everything goopy sickly sweet, all bright and glistening surfaces–there’s a lot of music in this style that does just that, all glitter and no substance–but they don’t take the bait. There’s plenty of sunshine on display, but they manage to work in menace, fear, regret, and doubt amidst the light, and it’s a fuller, more honest, more human range of emotions. And that’s what makes them so luminous." - Review by Jeremy Johnson, from the Pittsburg Appeal.