Modern Nature band leader Jack Cooper says with the group’s fourth album he “wanted the music to reflect nature: beginnings and endings, arrivals and departures, process and chance. I wanted the music and the words to feel like roots, branches, mycelium, the intricacies of a dawn chorus, neurons firing, the unknown.” I would say that was Modern Nature’s whole ethos right from the start, with a gentle sound that feels born of improvisation — they are a jazz group as much as anything — but is also clearly studied and considered, a musical representation of nature in the wild with no humans in sight.
Songs sound like vegetation pushing up through the soil to catch the light as the dew clings to the forest floor. Like on 2021’s Island of Noise, “No Fixed Point in Space” manages to capture the beauty, wonder and mystery of the natural world, observing and refracting it all through equally beautiful sounds.
released September 29th, 2023
The Fat Angel Sings 