Agriculture announces The Spiritual Sound, Live in Europe 2026, out digitally October 2nd!
In September 2025, The Flenser released Agriculture’s breakthrough album The Spiritual Sound. The record saw the band reach new heights, greatly expanding their audience, and by the following spring, they were performing on the main stage at Roadburn. The majority of The Spiritual Sound, Live in Europe 2026 was recorded during that performance, alongside additional recordings captured at venues across Europe.
Agriculture have always been an exceptional live band, with performances that have a way of winning over a room, including people encountering them for the first time. As the audience around The Spiritual Sound grew, more people were brought into that experience. The intensity is part of it, but so is the openness of the band’s music. What can seem overwhelming from a distance becomes strangely inviting when experienced together.
The Spiritual Sound is a record concerned with presence, devotion, suffering, beauty, and the pursuit of something transcendent through sound. In these recordings, those ideas become physical: four people in a room, playing at an overwhelming volume for an audience gathered to experience the shared moment.
There is something appropriate about documenting The Spiritual Sound this way. Agriculture’s music has always reached toward experiences that are difficult to explain but immediately understood when they are shared. The studio album gave those ideas a form. These recordings capture what happened when the band brought them into a room full of people.
Catch Agriculture on the road October 30 - December 13, 2026:
Oct 30 San Diego, CA – The Casbah ^
Oct 31 Pioneertown, CA – Pappy & Harriet ^
Nov 01 Phoenix, AZ – Rebel Lounge %
Nov 03 Colorado Springs, CO – What Left Records / Black Sheep %
Nov 05 Des Moines, IA – xBk %
Nov 06 Milwaukee, WI – Falcon Bowl %
Nov 07 Chicago, IL – The Empty Bottle %
Nov 08 Chicago, IL – The Empty Bottle % [sold out]
Nov 10 Omaha, NE – Slowdown Front Room %
Nov 12 Denver, CO – Marquis Theatre %
Nov 13 Fort Collins, CO – Sound Bar %
Nov 14 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge %
Nov 17 Seattle, WA – Substation %
Nov 18 Portland, OR – Aladdin Theatre %
Nov 20 Sacramento, CA – Harlow %
Nov 21 San Francisco, CA – August Hall %
Nov 22 Santa Cruz, CA – Felton Music Hall %
Nov 24 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre #
Dec 12 New York, NY – Saint Vitus [sold out]
Dec 13 Boston, MA – Saddest Day Festival
% with Uniform, Purest Form
^ with Purest Form
# with Bosse-de-Nage
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