Tune in on Friday, December 12th at 1pm to hear Maltodextrin‘s recent conversation with Jack Cooper of Cambridge, UK based band, Modern Nature. Together, they will discuss the group’s latest album, The Heat Warps and their upcoming show at 4 Star Theater in SF on December 15th.
When Modern Nature toured their last album, 2023’s No Fixed Point In Space, it became apparent to Jack Cooper – the band’s main creative force – that they were already pulling away from the free, open-ended approach they had spent five years working towards; almost as if the music had become so abstract and elasticated, it now had to snap back towards something more structured. As they found themselves naturally locking into more fixed grooves, he realised a new direction had been set. Their new album – The Heat Warps – is the triumphant manifestation of where that new direction took them.
In the aftermath, Cooper’s songwriting, which had become increasingly impressionistic, found a new focus and the idea of making an album that followed a similar path to the last two increasingly seemed obtuse. The purpose was to forge a radical change. The core trio of him, Jim Wallis (drums) and Jeff Tobias (bass guitar) were augmented by a new guitarist – Tara Cunningham.
Catch the interview to hear more about the process behind The Heat Warps and where the band is headed next.
