AGRICULTURE

 

Origen: E.E.U.U., Los Ángeles

Formados: ?

Estilo: Post-black

Temática: Emociones, experiencias humanas e introspección

Enlaces: Bandcamp, deezer, facebook, instagram y spotify

Miembros:

• Dan Meyer Guitarra y voces
• Kern Haug Percusion
• Leah B. Levinson Bajo y voces
• Richard Chowenhill Guitarra

Discografía:

• The Circle Chant EP 2022  
• Look, Pt. 1 Single 2023  
• The Glory of the Ocean Single 2023  
• Relier Single 2023  
• Agriculture CD 2023  
• Living is Easy Single 2024  
• In the House of Angel Flesh Single 2024  
• Living Is Easy / The Circle Chant EP 2024

LIVING IS EASY / THE CIRCLE CHANT (2024)

Agriculture se dieron a conocer el pasado año con un álbum homónimo que sentó las bases de un sonido ciertamente complejo que encuentra continuación  en este nuevo EP. Quién esté un poco relacionado con el sonido de banda sabrá que Agriculture no ofrecen un sonido black al uso, hay mucho peso de elementos experimentales y la filosofía positiva de la banda a través del sonido heavy acaba por impregnar este nuevo trabajo. El Ep se divide en ocho temas, lo cuatro primeros tienen un componente esotérico, centrado en el budismo y el servicio a la comunidad a través del sacrificio, encontramos un sonido complejo en donde se adentran por terrenos experimentales y ocultista con algunas disonancias como protagonistas, equilibrando ese tono directo y crudo con otro más accesible, ejerciendo tanto las voces una labor catalizadora a la hora de mezclar las limpias con las más metal, así como el trabajo de guitarras capaces de sonar crudas pero con desarrollos que aportan cierto tono de melodía. La segunda parte se muestra si cabe más complejo con una lucha entra la luz y al oscuridad, ofreciendo un buen número de elementos post, en forma de temas más extensos y largos que permiten que los temas se sumerjan en terrenos mucho más profundos, sabiendo jugar con las intensidades y trayendo también a sus sonido influencias más clásicas de estilos como el heavy. Tal vez en un primer momento el sonido no sea de lo más atractivo, pero una vez conectemos con la propuesta de Agricultura, lo cierto es que la experiencia se vuelve inmersiva, atrapándonos en unos terrenos complejos pero muy satisfactorios (8,4).

The Flenser

Side A - Living Is Easy

1. Living Is Easy 07:03

1. Picked over— Agriculture, Decompose To the soil Let it grow And in the setting sun Hold Ad infinitum Sending Gentle traveler, Green as rose Day to follow When you know As your time will come Go Know not what you’ve done At day’s end. 2. If I knew The shape of my Face before I was born I would not be afraid to die In a forest With insects eating my body I would not be afraid of that 3. i will bury another in the morning light touching if i cover i can set it right fall

2. Being Eaten by a Tiger 02:37

If I knew The shape of my face before I was born I would not be afraid to die On a mountain or in the city With insects eating my body I would not be afraid of that In a forest 3 brothers came upon a tiger and her cubs They were dying of hunger and fatigue The youngest brother said, ‘I will stay here And lay down my body. I’ll become Something good for them to eat’ And lying there, he was devoured He gazed gladly down upon his flesh as it was torn  

3. In the House of Angel Flesh 05:26

hey Camellia, what are you doing? get your feet back on the ground and find out for yourself. hey Tomato, feel the spring. give yourself another chance before you’re down. right now. hey Georgia, where did you go? try to bring yourself around before you leave. hey Rosemary, what on earth will make the bad thing go away. what do you need? what do you see 2. When the hand Came down On Tennessee, Death came ripping. What do you want me to believe? Fury born, Alight, Days deep. Crazy visions in a Stirred up kind of waking dream. 3. When you were born, we held you. You didn’t know it but you took your name then and emerged later after so many years. Sweet like okra or a comatose reverie, you found light in the gentle friction between sense and reality. Even as a child your features had definition. One folded into the next as though composed with intention. It’s true, there were many flowers like you in bloom then. Now, they toss atop bedsprings just to keep from eddying under. Their hands grip each other’s just to try to stay afloat and amidst the struggle, pleasure darts between them. It’s not easy. These words weren’t meant for you but one day they find you through another. And through you, one day they find another. And then one day another. And one day another. It’s not easy. Love should be easy to forget but it lingers like death. Happiness will never be a constant state of being. You find hope in brief, slipping grasps at revelation. You strive constantly to believe in a world just beyond the one you see. It comes to you sometimes, but only when you stop lookin 

4. When You Were Born 00:54  

Side B - The Circle Chant

5. The Circle Chant 05:05

hey Camellia,

what are you doing?

get your feet back on the ground

and find out

for yourself.

hey Tomato,

feel the spring.

give yourself another chance

before you’re down.

right now.

hey Georgia,

where did you go?

try to bring yourself around

before you leave.

hey Rosemary,

what on earth will

make the bad thing go away.

what do you need?

what do you see

2.

When the hand

Came down

On Tennessee,

Death came ripping.

What do you want me to believe?

Fury born,

Alight,

Days deep.

Crazy visions in a

Stirred up kind of waking dream.

3.

When you were born, we held you. You didn’t know it but you took your name then and emerged later after so many years. Sweet like okra or a comatose reverie, you found light in the gentle friction between sense and reality.

Even as a child your features had definition. One folded into the next as though composed with intention. It’s true, there were many flowers like you in bloom then. Now, they toss atop bedsprings just to keep from eddying under. Their hands grip each other’s just to try to stay afloat and amidst the struggle, pleasure darts between them. It’s not easy.

These words weren’t meant for you but one day they find you through another. And through you, one day they find another. And then one day another. And one day another. It’s not easy.

Love should be easy to forget but it lingers like death. Happiness will never be a constant state of being. You find hope in brief, slipping grasps at revelation. You strive constantly to believe in a world just beyond the one you see. It comes to you sometimes, but only when you stop lookin

6. Salt 00:48   instrumental

7. How to Keep Cool 02:37

 Find a space

Where silence lay

Hold it and forgive

Myself and hold pity

For the circumstance

Of the world as it stands

Wake and incur

My life ‘til this day

8. The Circle Chant, Pt. 2 01:43   instrumental

  26:13

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