Brian Ross Weitz, better known as Animal Collective's Geologist, has announced his debut solo album Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?, due out January 30 via Drag City Records.

Watch the Molten Synapse-directed video for the album's first single "Tonic" below:

Named in dedication to a Keiji Haino concert he saw at the (now-defunct) NYC venue of the same name, "Tonic" features work from his AnCo pal Avey Tare and drummer Alianna Kalaba.

Geologist explains:

“Most of the formative music in my teens was guitar based, and, at that age, you try to play like your favorites, but I was never very good at guitar myself. A couple years ago when trying to come up with a solo hurdy-gurdy drone set to take out on tour, I heard a story about Greg Ginn playing guitar solos over a drum machine. I was coming to accept that whatever drone I could make on the hurdy-gurdy would never live up to when I first heard Keiji Haino play one at Tonic in 1998. So I went the Ginn route instead and wrote this record. I still can’t play or write like my favorites, but the hurdy-gurdy got me closer than guitar ever did.”

Recorded at Drop of Sun Studios in Ashville, North Carolina, the first-ever Geologist solo effort features contributions from Alianna Kalaba, Avey Tare, drummers Emma Garau and Ryan Oslance, clarinetist Shane McCord, cellist Mikey Powers, vibraphonist Adam Lion, and his son Merrick Weitz.

Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights? is out January 30, 2026. Pre-order here. Tracklist below:

1. Oracle Road
2. Tonic
3. RV Envy
4. Not Trad
5. Color in the B&W
6. Compact Mirror / Last Names
7. Government Job
8. Pumpkin Festival
9. Shelley Duvall
10. Sonora