Heather Trost - Desert Flowers (2022) [Hi-Res]

Trost has an impressive body of work, notably in collaboration with husband Jeremy Barnes (Neutral Milk Hotel) on their own record label Living Music Duplication, and their Eastern European folk-influenced band A Hawk And A Hacksaw, where she sings, plays violin, autoharp, and more. Trost has recorded with dozens of artists, including Josephine Foster, Thor and Friends, Claire Cronin, and Swans.

As Heather Trost put together her new album Desert Flowers, she imagined herself sitting out on the mesa amidst the arid climate and sand. Even with such little water to survive, wildflowers bloom. This vision is an embellishment of Trost’s Albuquerque surroundings, an intersection of rural splendor and emptiness. She remains focused on those purple, yellow and orange flowers with faces beaming up to the sky, thriving on very little. “How does a flower grow in the desert?” she sings. Desert Flowers postulates the potential for new life. Using the messages from the unconscious during sleep, the record ultimately conceives a bridge to the world beyond our own.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Heather Trost - Frog and Toad are Friends (2:39)
1.02 - Heather Trost - Sandcastles (5:13)
1.03 - Heather Trost - The Devil Never Sleeps (4:25)
1.04 - Heather Trost - Blue Fish (3:51)
1.05 - Heather Trost - Black is the Night (4:41)
1.06 - Heather Trost - You Always Gave Me Succor (4:56)
1.07 - Heather Trost - Despoina (5:19)
1.08 - Heather Trost - The Debutante (4:36)
1.09 - Heather Trost - Your Favorite Color (3:20)