Modern Nature – “Footsteps”

Jack Cooper’s dizzying new band Modern Nature has let slip a few listens to their upcoming eponymous LP and now they give a visual representation of the nervous energy that drives the band’s sound. The Jake McGowan directed video shows Cooper pacing around the city, backgrounds spinning, flipping, and blurring in disorienting fashion to the beat. While much of the album embraces a pastoral creep into Krautrock’s camp, “Footsteps” is pure motorik mayhem. The songs locks down into a Neu-nicked groove and slashes at the panic with stabs of sax from Sunwatchers’ Jeff Tobias. Fans of Coo[ers’ Mazes should find a bit to chew on here, but in general Modern Nature is a singularly engrossing entity from Cooper’s musical universe. I’ve said before, I’m sad Ultimate Painting had to go, but if Modern Nature is the result of the fallout, its not all ashes left behind. The record is out on Bella Union August 30th.

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