The lines between city and country were on Jack Cooper and Will Young’s minds when they named their new band Modern Nature. On the band’s debut album, ‘How to Live’, urban and rural cross into each other. Plaintive cello strains melt into motorik beats. Pastoral field recordings drift through looping guitar figures. Rising melodies shine with reflective saxophone accents, placing the record somewhere between the subtle mediations of Talk Talk, the stirring folk of Anne Briggs and the atmoshperic waves of Harmonia.

Disc 1
1. Bloom – Modern Nature
2. Footsteps – Modern Nature
3. Turbulence – Modern Nature
4. Criminals – Modern Nature
5. Sance – Modern Nature
6. Nightmares – Modern Nature
7. Peradam – Modern Nature
8. Oracle – Modern Nature
9. Nature – Modern Nature
10. Devotee – Modern Nature