Modern Nature announce mini-album with lead single "Flourish"

"Flourish" is the first new single from Modern Nature since their 2019 debut LP How To Live.

They recorded the seven tracks that make up Annual in December 2019 at London's Gizzard Studio.

Modern Nature's Jack Cooper worked on Annual with How To Live collaborator Jeff Tobias, alongside percussionist Jim Wallis. Will Young didn't contribute to this Modern Nature project, after deciding to concentrate on BEAK>.

Cooper says of the mini-album, "Towards the end of 2018, I began filling a new diary with words, observations from walks, descriptions of events, thoughts...free associative streams of just... stuff. Reading back, as the year progressed from winter to spring, the tone of the diary seemed to change as well... optimism crept in, brightness and then things began to dip as autumn approached... warmth, isolation again and into winter."

He adds, "I split the diary into four seasons and used them as the template for the four main songs. The shorter instrumental songs on the record are meant to signify specific events and transitions from one season to the next. I figured it wouldn't be a very long record, but to me it stands up next to How To Live in every way."

Tracklist:

1. Dawn
2. Flourish
3. Mayday
4. Halo
5. Harvest
6. Ritual
7. Wynter