So now it’s about or with two guitars at the British band Modern Nature. The guitarist Tara Cunningham has joined the core trio Jack Cooper (guitar), Jim Wallis (drums) and Jeff Tobias (bass), and this has changed the band sound. Band founder Jack Cooper recently revealed that he has always been drawn to the “dual guitar sound”, reference: The Television-and-Brian-Eno sessions 1974.
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On The Heat Warps, however, there are now no towering guitar duels in the spirit of Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd, but a well-balanced cooperation between the string people, cushioned by the sovereign drum-and-bass frame. On the opening piece “Pharaoh”, the guitarros produce a melody pinst that learns to dance on herb beats, in “source” they put a 1990er-Americana sound, with “Jetty” it is only a few string swabs, to which Cooper unpacks his gentle Sunday voice.
A complete sound image is created in the track “Alpensglow”, a piece of progspop played in the pink and dazzling and dazzling. And that comes close to a mood music – compared to songs from early works such as how to live (2019) and Annual (2020), which grew out of a sound fertilizer with cello and saxophone.
This review was first published in the MusikExpress 09/25.