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How To Live
ReleaseProduct
How To Live
Artist
Modern Nature
Label
Bella Union
Catalogue Number
BELLA870
Release Date
August 23, 2019

On Modern Nature’s debut album, How to Live, urban and rural cross into each other. Plaintive cello strains melt into motorik beats. Pastoral field recordings drift through looping guitar figures. Rising melodies shine with reflective saxophone accents, placing the record somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle between the expansive motorik of Can, the Canterbury progressiveness of Caravan and the burgeoning experimentalism of Talk Talk’s Colour Of Spring.

As he began writing songs, Cooper was also tuning to the vibes of Earth Loop, an instrumental solo album by Beak>’s Will Young (under the name Moon Gangs). For a long time, Cooper had hoped to work more with Young, who almost joined his first band, Mazes, and was in the touring version of his next group, Ultimate Painting.

The richness of the ideas in these songs is matched by the resonance of the music. Cooper and Young’s organic compositions gain skin and muscle through the thoughtful cello of Rupert Gillett, the insistent drumming of Aaron Nevue (of compatriot outfit Woods), and the expressive saxophone of Jeff Tobias, from Brooklyn jazz / rock juggernaut Sunwatchers. Each track on How to Live evolved as these creative forces joined the group, and it shows. The entire album courses with both precision and vitality. The band is closely tuned to the core of each piece, but also unafraid to throw themselves into every moment.

It’s a work of surprising layers and limitless depths, impressing more strongly with each listen. Modern Nature may have been inspired by the line between urban and rural, but with How To Live they’ve gone a step further, and created their own complete world.

Modern Nature on Spotify

Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 Bloom 1:42 Buy

    Bloom

  2. 2 Footsteps 5:20 Buy

    Footsteps

  3. 3 Turbulence 3:38 Buy

    Turbulence

  4. 4 Criminals 4:23 Buy

    Criminals

  5. 5 Seance 2:43 Buy

    Seance

  6. 6 Nightmares 4:23 Buy

    Nightmares

  7. 7 Peradam 4:16 Buy

    Peradam

  8. 8 Oracle 3:19 Buy

    Oracle

  9. 9 Nature 4:03 Buy

    Nature

  10. 10 Devotee 7:56 Buy

    Devotee

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