{"id":103581,"date":"2025-08-28T16:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103581\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:51:08","slug":"modern-nature-the-heat-warps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103581\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Nature, \u201cThe Heat Warps\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/daily.bandcamp.com\/album-of-the-day\" class=\"franchise\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ALBUM OF THE DAY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        Modern Nature, \u201cThe Heat Warps\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By <\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/daily.bandcamp.com\/contributors\/jennifer-kelly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        \u00b7<br \/>\n        August 28, 2025<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n<p>    <img data-bind=\"attr: { 'src': bigPlayerArtURL }\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n<p>Modern Nature\u2019s songs exist within a sunny fog, all soft contours and elliptical inference. Wistful choruses drift by, occasionally bolstered by shadowy CSNY-style harmonies, as phrases emerge and recede, widely separated by pauses. It\u2019s all very languid and impressionistic on the surface, but carefully structured underneath. The crisp minimalism of drum and bass pushes forward but quietly, like a krautrock rhythm section swathed in batting. Two guitars play at each other with lucid precision, not in sync, not even really in conversation, but approaching the same problem from different directions.<\/p>\n<p>The Heat Warps is Jack Cooper\u2019s sixth album as Modern Nature, following stints in similarly serene but prickly outfits <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimatepainting.bandcamp.com\/album\/dust-on-my-eyes-b-w-i-wish-i-could-disappear\" data-clickthrough=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ultimate Painting<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/wearemazes.bandcamp.com\/\" data-clickthrough=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mazes<\/a>. The project has mutated considerably over time, incorporating <a href=\"https:\/\/modernnature.bandcamp.com\/album\/no-fixed-point-in-space\" data-clickthrough=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">free jazz musicians<\/a> and writers of <a href=\"https:\/\/modernnature.bandcamp.com\/album\/island-of-noise\" data-clickthrough=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">experimental prose<\/a>\u00a0into its later albums, but retaining a core ensemble of Cooper, Jim Wallis on drums and Jeff Tobias (of Sunwatchers) on bass. This time, however, Modern Nature adds a fourth member, the guitarist and improviser Tara Cunningham, best known for her work in <a href=\"https:\/\/redsnapper.bandcamp.com\/\" data-clickthrough=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Snapper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear Cooper and Cunningham finding a way to work together on opening cut \u201cPharoah,\u201d one of the tracks that drives the hardest and most emphatically on clacks of woodblock, thrusts of snare, and booms of bass sound. The guitars scribble in the margins, lobbing clots of syncopated notes at one another over the beat, then listening, thinking, and responding in kind. The instrumental sound is knotty and challenging, but it\u2019s laid over with a soothing vocal drone. Cooper\u2019s torn, frayed murmur picks up charcoal-smudged harmonies here, a folk sound tinged with jazzy experimentation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlpenglow\u201d is the clear highlight, with gemlike guitar tones glittering over its fuzzy, insistent propulsion. The song is on the move, clearly, but also utterly calming, spare and architectural, but embellished, suddenly, with lavish harmonies. Sings Cooper, \u201cFinally making some sense of it all\/ Finally everything starting to fall\/ Into a pattern that infinite factors break out in fear.\u201d And in a way, that\u2019s Modern Nature\u2014a band that creates patterns out of complex fractal parts and limpid beauty out of multiplicity.<\/p>\n<p>\n        NOW PLAYING<br \/>\n        PAUSED\n    <\/p>\n<p>        <img data-bind=\"attr: { 'src': currentTrack().smallArtURL }\"\/><\/p>\n<p> by <\/p>\n<p>\n            .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBUM OF THE DAY Modern Nature, \u201cThe Heat Warps\u201d By Jennifer Kelly \u00b7 August 28, 2025 \u200b \u200b&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-103581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}