{"id":9334,"date":"2026-03-11T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/animal-collective-croz-boyce\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:55:00","slug":"animal-collective-croz-boyce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/animal-collective-croz-boyce\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Collective Duo Conjure Croz Boyce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2026\/03\/unnamed-1-1.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"796\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Dave Portner (Avey Tare) and Brian Weitz (Geologist) (photo: Charlie Boss).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Animal Collective members Dave Portner\u00a0(Avey Tare) and\u00a0Brian Weitz\u00a0(Geologist) have emerged with a new instrumental duo project dubbed Croz Boyce and will release their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dominomusic.com\/releases\/croz-boyce\/croz-boyce\/lp\" target=\"_blank\">self-titled debut<\/a> on May 8 through longtime label Domino.<\/p>\n<p>The nine-track effort is led by the track \u201cHanging Out With a Blueberry Pop,\u201d which is accompanied with a beguiling underwater video directed by explorer Joseph Ricketts. Fellow Animal Collective member Josh Dibb\u00a0(Deakin) contributed to the album\u2019s mixing.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/03\/billie-eilish-the-bell-jar-film\/\">Billie Eilish Bound For \u2018Bell Jar\u2019 Film Adaptation?<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/03\/kacey-musgraves-new-album\/\">Speak And \u2018Spell\u2019: Kacey Musgraves Is Back<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/03\/violet-grohl-debut-album\/\">\u2018Sweet\u2019 Music: Violet Grohl Readies Debut Album<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"CD6hF177PMg\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Portner and Weitz were inspired to work together in this fashion after contributing an Animal Collective track they created as a duo, \u201cBrown Thrasher,\u201d to the 2022 compilation <em>For the Birds<\/em>. Early the following year, Portner began sending guitar instrumentals to Weitz, who would then send back his own contributions. The pair did not work on this music in the same room until the mixing process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA record of sweet or fretful acoustic strums and electronics that give every scene color and depth, <em>Croz Boyce<\/em> feels like a celebration of friendship, of the chance to share a lifetime together\u00a0even if\u00a0from a distance,\u201d reads a description. As for the name? After beginning the sessions shortly after the death of David Crosby, the musicians utilized a Dropbox folder dubbed \u201cCroz Boys\u201d to share their work and the moniker stuck (it\u2019s \u201cnot a tribute to\u00a0the Croz\u2019s\u00a0music at all but\u00a0maybe an\u00a0unintentional tribute to the idea that there are lots of worse ways to pass your life than making music with buds,\u201d Domino says).<\/p>\n<p>Animal Collective has not played a proper live show since September 2022; its most recent album, <em>Isn\u2019t It Now?<\/em>, was released in September 2023. Group member Panda Bear will play the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona and Porto, Portugal, in June.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-here-is-the-track-list-for-croz-boyce\">Here is the track list for <em>Croz Boyce<\/em>:<\/h2>\n<p>Hanging Out\u00a0With\u00a0a Blueberry Pop<br \/>Towson Acid<br \/>What If Janis Just Stared?<br \/>Abundant River Zap<br \/>Steven\u2019s Sunshine Rejected<br \/>Father Karras<br \/>Janis (Still Staring)<br \/>Eternal Dream Drone<br \/>Banana Pudding<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Portner (Avey Tare) and Brian Weitz (Geologist) (photo: Charlie Boss). 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