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Order the vinyl edition here: shop.deathbombarc.com/collections/vinyl/products/ted-hearne-the-crossing-farming-double-lp-vinyl

With his new album FARMING (out this fall via Deathbomb Arc), Ted Hearne — the composer and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist praised by Pitchfork for creating “some of the most expressive socially engaged music in recent memory” — confronts technology’s ominous encroachment upon humanity’s very being. Commissioned by the GRAMMY-winning choir The Crossing, FARMING tackles the long-tail impact of settler colonialism and its philosophical motivations on agricultural degradation, big tech utopianism, corporate religiosity, and the abstraction of community.

Hearne dives headfirst into the Uncanny Valley, conjuring a soundworld fraught with neck-breaking shifts and stylistic contradictions. Its unholy marriage of ersatz Americana, digitally altered choral arrangements, and hyperpop’s synapse-frying maximalism inverts technology’s smoothing impulses in favor of an unwieldy, knotty expression of modern ennui and alienation.

Upon its 2023 live performance debut, The New York Times called FARMING “a suggestive, chaotically ambitious, often poignant reflection on colonization, consumption, marketing, entrepreneurship.” It’s certainly intellectually audacious: In repurposing primary texts from William Penn and Jeff Bezos, FARMING contends with the mythological constructs humans erect to justify their participation in an economy’s unfeeling entropies — and reveals the ethical void at their core.

Order vinyl at: shop.deathbombarc.com/products/ted-hearne-the-crossing-farming-double-lp-vinyl

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released October 17, 2025

RECORDING TEAM
The Crossing
Donald Nally, conductor
Rohan Chander, synth bass
Viva DeConcini, guitar
John Grecia, keyboards
Taylor Levine, guitars and lap steel
Clara Warnaar, percussion
Ron Wiltrout, drum set and percussion
Shahzad Ismaley, electric bass (track 7)
Levi Lu, additional electronics (track 6)

THE CROSSING
Dario Amador-Lage
Katy Avery (solo vocals, track 7)
Jessica Beebe
Kelly Ann Bixby
Karen Blanchard
Steven Bradshaw (solo vocals, track 7)
Micah Dingler
Joanna Gates
Michael Hawes
Steven Hyder
Michael Jones
A.J. Keller
Lauren Kelly
Anika Kildegaard
Heidi Kurtz
Fran Daniel Laucerica
Maren Montalbano (solo vocals, tracks 2, 5, 6)
Daniel Schwartz
Rebecca Siler
Tiana Sorenson
Daniel Spratlan
Elisa Sutherland (solo vocals, tracks 3, 5, 6)
Daniel Taylor
Jackson Williams (solo vocals, track 7)

Donald Nally, conductor
Kevin Vondrak, assistant conductor & artistic associate
Paul Vazquez, sound designer
John Grecia, company keyboardist

Produced by William Brittelle, Ted Hearne, Donald Nally
Additional production and programming by BAKUDI SCREAM
Mixed by Michael Hammond

Additional choral mixing by Paul Vazquez
Choral recording engineering by Paul Vazquez
Additional recording engineering by Charles Mueller, Michael Hammond, Ted Hearne

Editing by Paul Vazquez, Ted Hearne
(Vinyl): Premastering by Thomas Dimuzio at Gench Studios, San Francisco
(Digital): Mastering by Thomas Dimuzio at Gench Studios, San Francisco
Associate producers: Kevin Vondrak, Paul Vazquez
Choral Recording Additional Engineer: Matt Weber
Choral Recording Assistant Engineers: Dave Downham and Eric McNelis

Executive Producers: Unsettlement Music and The Crossing

Choral and instrumental recording for FARMING took place at The Gradwell House in Haddon Heights, New Jersey. Additional recording at Unsettlement Studio (Los Angeles), Tiny Panther (Brooklyn, NY), and Figure 8 (Brooklyn).

Album artwork and design by Nia Easley
Original support for Farming was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from Carol Westfall, Laurie and Jeff Franz, and the Josephine & Lester Hensley Family Trust.

(c) 2025 by Unsettlement Music and The Crossing

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