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80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. Feb 5, 2026
    80
    Ultimately, Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights? represents a deepening of Geologist’s already unique musical language. He uses the hurdy gurdy as an entry point for many of the songs, but always proceeds to strange, new places from there.
  2. Feb 2, 2026
    80
    You might expect that pulling one part away from the whole would leave you with something solitary, but Weitz’s departure from his proverbial and literal ‘collective’ does not reduce him to a singularity. Instead, he emerges as a complex sum of parts all of his own.
  3. Jan 28, 2026
    80
    It's an aimless wander through the uncanny valley, ideal for close-listening dissection or complete dissociation.
  4. Uncut
    Jan 28, 2026
    80
    Weitz shreds and manipulates the instrument [hurdy gurdy] so it becomes the record's distinctive voice. the nine-minute dubs "Compact Mirror/Last Names" and "Sonora" are especially spellbinding. [Feb 2026, p.33]
  5. Mojo
    Jan 28, 2026
    80
    Splitting the difference between the digital and the hand-cranked, Geologist has opened up his own haunting little universe. [Mar 2026, p.81]
  6. Feb 3, 2026
    70
    It’s true, the constant drone can prove a bit wearying over the course of an album. But Can I Get A Pack Of Camel Lights is an album that will reveal its charms to anyone willing to make the effort.
  7. 70
    Though Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights? is a magpie-mix of familiar genres and influences, from Indian-raga-inspired psychedelia to tripped-out electronica, it is also clearly the product of someone freely expanding their sound in multiple directions, and that sense of exploration and fun is infectious.
  8. Jan 29, 2026
    68
    An odd, pleasingly unclassifiable instrumental record that was inspired, bizarrely enough, by a hurdy-gurdy performance he saw Keiji Haino play 28 years ago.

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