Public Disco Porch Digs Deep Into Agrarian Gothic Folk on Agriculture

The Central Pennsylvania outfit turns rural history and earthy psychedelia into an intoxicating fertile landscape

The six-track album operates like a gritty study of rural life, regional history, and agrarian myth.

Opener “Agronomy” drags you headfirst into the loam with thick, low-slung guitar fuzz and vocal phrasing that mirrors the hypnotic gravity of All Them Witches. Sonically, the band strikes a brilliant contrast between cabin-room acoustic intimacy and heavy, wall-of-sound doom-blues. On “Tobacco + Deer,” twangy psych-folk goes over a steadily tightening groove, while the nearly seven-minute “Horse Skull” showcases their most ambitious arrangement to date—bursting from fragile picking into a thunderous, earth-shaking finale. Meanwhile, tracks like “Rogation” and “Sickle” ground the record’s dark atmosphere in rhythmic, liturgical weight.

For me, Agriculture feels like an artifact dug up from damp Pennsylvania soil. It’s mud-stained, and heavy.

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