Modern NatureBest Modern Nature Albums Ranked
7.3
Avg Score
11
Opinions
5
Albums
5
Reviewers
Summary from 11 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Modern Nature's catalog across 5 albums from 11 opinions, with an overall average of 7.3/10. The top-rated Modern Nature album is Island of Noise (2022) with a 7.8/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by How to Live and No Fixed Point In Space. The discography on Wavelength spans 2019 to 2025.
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.”
No Fixed Point In Space
“Featuring players from Spiritualized and the Necks, the hushed third album from Jack Cooper’s chamber-improv ensemble slots into a lineage of exploratory groups fusing folk, psych, and post-rock.”
How to Live
“New band from former Ultimate Painting songwriter Jack Cooper blends introspective songwriting with churning experimentation in earnest search of a different plane of existence.”
No Fixed Point In Space
“The first two Modern Nature record, 2019’s How to Live and 2021’s Island of Noise, marked a decisive break with the past for Jack Cooper, previously best known for making charming, inventive pop music as one half of Ultimate Painting, and, before that, melodic indie rock as the frontman of Mazes. Suddenly, the traditional song structures that had defined those two outfits were eschewed in favour o”
Annual
“A NOTE: LOUD AND QUIET IS IN DANGER OF CLOSING. PLEASE CONSIDER SUBSCRIBING TO OUR MAGAZINE OR MAKING A SMALL DONATION HERE. THANK YOU. Applauding the theatrics of our natural world, few would’ve predicted the pastoral prose of Modern Nature. For the project’s mastermind Jack Cooper, the premature expiry of his former band Ultimate Painting proved to be a pivotal juncture for the psych-pop purvey”
Annual
“The group’s new mini-album is their most consistent and focused, but by drawing their sound down to its essence, they dampen the anything-goes spirit that made them so appealing.”
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