JEFF TOBIAS
Recurring Dream STRATEGY OF TENSION
Modern Nature member’s outré indie solo debut
8/10
Tobias is Jack Cooper’s sax-squalling collaborator in Modern Nature as well as a central figure in the experimental quartet Sunwatchers. Here, playing a dozen different instruments, he delivers what amounts to his formal solo debut, aside from limited-edition cassettes. It is post-rock tinged with jazz and electronica but other than the odd moment of more intense weirdness (“Holiday Music Part 1”; “Ghost Story”), Tobias plays it relatively straight, like indie at its most outré.