Having spent the last 15 years or so as a well-regarded side musician and arranger, lending her talent to such performers as Beirut, Josephine Foster, and the legendary Neutral Milk Hotel, composer/violinist Heather Trost is following her criminally under-heard Ouroboros cassette from 2015 with a new LP called Agistri .

Leading a session band that includes Deerhoof’s John Dietrich, Agistri continues the journey Trost began as half of beloved neo-world music duo A Hawk And A Hacksaw (alongside Neutral Milk’s Jeremy Barnes), collating psychedelia, Samba, Italian soundtrack music, Wurlitzer-heavy midcentury rock, and her own distinct flair into something that’s equally “poppy” and personal. Named for a Greek island, Agistri is also an attempt to capture the exoticism and the melancholy of being by the sea in a foreign country. As such, strong turquoise water energy is on display, as is Trost’s gift for arranging disparate instruments together to sound like the most natural thing in the world.