You don’t so much listen to The Spiritual Sound as stand before it. Los Angeles quartet Agriculture—Dan Meyer (vocals, guitar), Leah B. Levinson (vocals, bass), Richard Chowenhill (guitar), and Kern Haug (drums)—channel black metal’s fury into something radiant, even devotional. Their second full-length doesn’t move like a traditional album; it unfolds like a ritual, a slow immolation of the self enacted through feedback and form. What emerges is not orthodoxy or transgression but something more precarious: a belief trembling on the verge of collapse. From its opening moments, The Spiritual Sound destabilizes its lineage. Meyer has said that the band … Continue reading Review: Agriculture – The Spiritual Sound