Island Of Noise
Jack Cooper’s vision as a songwriter and bandleader comes into focus on the most cohesive album of his career: a fantasyland hybrid of elegant folk-rock and understated free-jazz.
For an album rooted in the mulch of Britain's flora and fauna, Modern Nature's third LP is remarkably light and airy.
Though Modern Nature’s Jack Cooper certainly has a musical history that pre-dates the release of his latest project’s Nature EP in 2019, a compelling arc of history and evolution can be traced over the past three years of his latest iteration’s existence. Originally billed as a partnership between Cooper and BEAK>’s Will Young, half of the musicians that appeared on Modern Nature’s debut, Young and Woods’ Aaron Neveu, are no longer on board, or at least not for the outfit’s high water mark to date, Island of Noise.
Jack Cooper swerves the cliches with this transporting, melodic album, adding free jazz to a treasure trove of ideas