Croz Boyce Croz Boyce (Clear)

What if 40 minutes of instrumental music made by two friends passing files across state lines could capture the range of human experience, or at least a disproportionate chunk of it-worry and camaraderie, hope and frustration, tenderness and absurdity? That is the question that steadily emerges across the nine tracks of the self-titled debut from Croz Boyce, the duo of two musicians who have made some of the last quarter-century's most inquisitive music, Dave Portner (Avey Tare) and Brian Weitz (Geologist) of Animal Collective.