The saddest noise, the sweetest noise is an album born of stillness, sisterhood, and storytelling. When the world shut down during the pandemic and our performing careers paused overnight, we returned to the most immediate and enduring instruments we had—our voices, and each other.

We asked ourselves: what could we create with just two voices and a violin or viola? What stories could we tell, and how simply could we tell them? What emerged was a collection of original songs and reimagined folk songs that explore love, grief, womanhood, mental health, and memory—all through the lens of close familial harmony.

The heart of this album is the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Setting these poets’ words to music became a way of entering into conversation with them, honoring their lyric intensity while letting melody carry their meaning forward. We were drawn to the tension in their work—the sweetness and the ache, the restraint and the wildness—and tried to reflect that in our music.

At its core, The Saddest Noise, The Sweetest Noise is a celebration of melody, poetry, and the emotional resonance that lives inside harmony. It’s the sound of two sisters interpreting the world through song, shaped by a decade of shared experience and a deep desire to make something that feels both fresh and familiar. We are recording at Tiny Panther Recording Studio with engineer Charles Mueller.