Jack Cooper’s unique project, Modern Nature, has been on our radar at TMR for a while now. 2023 was a highlight year for the band, thanks to the release of their third full-length album, No Fixed Point In Space, which dropped in September via Bella Union. “I wanted the music to reflect nature: beginnings and endings, arrivals and departures, process and chance,” explains Cooper. “I wanted the music and the words to feel like roots, branches, mycelium, the intricacies of a dawn chorus, neurons firing, the unknown.” The end result is a landscape of sound defined by fantastic melodies, presented alongside rhythms and textures that are as chaotic and unpredictable as the natural world that inspired them. Keep an eye out as Modern Nature move from strength to strength in 2024. -Dan Peeke