Brian Ross Weitz, the Animal Collective musician higher generally known as Geologist, has introduced his debut solo studio album. The complete-length, Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?, is out January 30 through Drag City. Under, watch director Molten Synapse’s music video for lead single “Tonic.”
Geologist named his new single “Tonic” in honor of a Keiji Haino show he noticed on the now-closed New York music venue of the identical identify. The music options contributions from drummer Alianna Kalaba and Geologist’s Animal Collective bandmate David “Avey Tare” Portner.
“A lot of the formative music in my teenagers was guitar primarily based, and, at that age, you attempt to play like your favorites,” Geologist stated in an announcement. “However I used to be by no means excellent at guitar myself. A pair years in the past when attempting to provide you with a solo hurdy-gurdy drone set to take out on tour, I heard a narrative about Greg Ginn taking part in guitar solos over a drum machine. I used to be coming to simply accept that no matter drone I might make on the hurdy-gurdy would by no means stay as much as once I first heard Keiji Haino play one at Tonic in 1998. So I went the Ginn route as a substitute and wrote this file. I nonetheless can’t play or write like my favorites, however the hurdy-gurdy obtained me nearer than guitar ever did.”
Geologist labored on Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights? with Alianna Kalaba, Avey Tare, recording engineer Adam McDaniel, drummers Emma Garau and Ryan Oslance, clarinetist Shane McCord, cellist Mikey Powers, and vibraphonist Adam Lion. As well as, his son, Merrick Weitz, performs guitar on “Authorities Job.”
Earlier this yr, Geologist launched a collaborative album with Doug Shaw known as A Shaw Deal. The newest Animal Collective album, Isn’t It Now?, arrived in 2023.
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Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?:
01 Oracle Highway
02 Tonic
03 RV Envy
04 Not Trad
05 Coloration within the B&W
06 Compact Mirror / Final Names
07 Authorities Job
08 Pumpkin Pageant
09 Shelley Duvall
10 Sonora
