No Fixed Point In Space, the third full-length album by Jack Cooper’s Modern Nature, takes the palette of sound and themes that were honed on 2021’s Island Of Noise and launches them into an expansive world of openness and vivid technicolour. It’s a music that hasn’t been heard before; as melodic as anything Cooper has produced but framed by rhythms and instrumentation that reflect the chaos, unpredictability and colour of the natural world. Certain moorings - woodwind, percussion, strings and Cooper’s lambent voice - are still present and recognisable from No Fixed Point In Space’s predecessor, Island Of Noise but the new record marks a shift to utilising musical notation as a point of departure, from which the group explore the space around suggested notes and rhythms to create a semi-improvised, semi-composed ensemble performance. These explorations of partly organised chance were recorded live and directly to tape. This approach gives the music a remarkably fresh feel; songs pulse and evolve. The changes between movements, verse and choruses are almost all ambiguous. During the album’s opener Tonic, a verse of hushed brevity washes away into a passage of overwhelmingly vibrant orchestration.

Modern Nature · Island of Noise · Song · 2022

from the album The Heat Warps

from the album No Fixed Point In Space

from the album The Heat Warps

A striking nature photograph capturing a single, brilliantly colored maple leaf resting on the forest floor, rendered in extraordinarily vivid shades of coral-red, orange, and pink with enhanced color...

from the album The Heat Warps

from the album The Heat Warps

Modern Nature · The Heat Warps · Song · 2025

Modern Nature · The Heat Warps · Song · 2025

Net voor hun aanstaande tournee door het Verenigd Koninkrijk, die aanstaande zaterdag in Blackpool van start gaat, deelt Modern Nature vandaag een korte film getiteld Take Our Chances over het maken van hun door ons volop geprezen nieuwe album The Heat Warps. De boeiende film van 20 minuten, die in november 2024 werd opgenomen op […]

Modern Nature's first album with new guitarist Tara Cunningham THE HEAT WARPS has been released by Bella Union

Tijdens het toeren van het vorige album, het fraaie No Fixed Point in Space, werd het voor Jack Cooper, creatieve spil in Modern Nature, al duidelijk: de band was onderweg naar nieuwe muzikale werelden, van vrij en open naar meer gestructureerd. Het trio Cooper (zang/gitaar), Jim Wallis (drums) en Jeff Tobias (bas) kreeg hierna versterking […]

from the album The Heat Warps