Tommy

Audio Mixers: Ben Durrant; Martin Dosh.Recording information: Bubble Room, Austin (07/2008-10/2009); Crazy Beast Studio, Minneapolis, MN (07/2008-10/2009); Martin's Basement (07/2008-10/2009); Nashville, TN (07/2008-10/2009); San Leandro, CA (07/2008-10/2009); The Dugout, New Orleans, LA (07/2008-10/2009); Trinidad, CA (07/2008-10/2009).Martin Dosh describes the minimal, repetitive soundscapes he assembles as post-rock, a genre that's as vague and inclusive as the music he makes on Tommy. (The album has absolutely nothing in common with the Who's album of the same name, in case you're wondering.) The pieces here -- it's hard to call them songs or tracks -- are almost ambient, but there's too much noise and too many shifting sounds to keep you from spacing out for too long. It could be called space music, but it eschews the soothing sounds associated with that genre. Maybe you could call it music from the heart of a black hole, a thick sonic stew that can shift from compellingly rhythmi