Agriculture announce new album, tour

Agriculture has announced details of the much-anticipated follow-up to their self-titled debut full-length release, which featured in Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2023.

The Spiritual Sound will be released on October 3 via The Flenser, and earlier today, the Los Angeles-based four-piece shared the lead single, Bodhidharma, which you can watch / listen to below.

The Spiritual Sound is largely a fusing of the visions of Agriculture’s two principal songwriters, Dan Meyer and Leah Levinson – the former commenting on Bodhidharma:

“Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism, was an Indian monk who famously stared at the wall of a cave for nine years. He even cut off his eyelids in order to prevent himself from falling asleep. At one time, another monk approached him in his cave and pleaded ‘master, my head is on fire with anxiety, can you pacify my mind?’ Bodhidharma just kept staring at the wall and Huike waited outside of the cave all night until he was buried in snow up to his waist. Finally, as a gesture of desperation he cut off his arm and offered it to the great master. Huike later became Bodhidharma’s successor.”

The band has also announced tour dates across the U.K., Europe and Norther America (full details below).