Heather Trost

New Mexico-based artist Heather Trost’s Petrichor is fresh, unique, and as experimental as it is accessible. Petrichor was recorded between 2018 and 2019 by Heather Trost and her husband Jeremy Barnes at their home studio. The two live in Albuquerque, are urban gardeners and full-time musicians.

Trost has an impressive body of work, notably in collaboration with husband Barnes (Neutral Milk Hotel) on their own record label Living Music Duplication, and their dazzling and uncategorizable Eastern European folk-influenced band A Hawk And A Hacksaw, where she sings and plays violin, autoharp, keyboards, and other instruments. In the last two decades, Trost has toured and recorded with dozens of artists. Fans of A Hawk And A Hacksaw might be surprised at how different Trost’s solo work sounds; she describes the difference as working in “two different languages.”