Lav's Music Corner

These EPs are all just a lil bit scary, but that's okay because more importantly they're all also varying degrees of good.  Living Is Easy  EP - Agriculture Agriculture is a west coast black metal outfit that's signed to The Flenser, all of which basically guaranteed that I was going to like them before I ever heard a single song. That crystalized into a debut self-titled album last year that I thought was solid and one I was looking forward to the follow-up to. I didn't expect that it was going to come so soon in an EP just a year later and I also didn't expect it to be teased with singles I loved as much as the two they delivered. Opener Living Is Easy  feels triumphant in the same way some of the best songs on their debut did. It has punishing intensity in the crashing drums and guttural wails across the middle section. But the song is weirdly bright in the spaces between in a way that makes its throttling intensity feel like it isn't just there to punish lis