Modern Nature unveil soothing new single "Harvest"

"Harvest" is the second track to be lifted from Annual, after last month's lead single "Flourish".

The new single sees the band team up with Kayla Cohen of Itasca. Jack Cooper says of the new offering, ""Harvest" represents Autumn on the record and centres around rituals and superstitions. A lot of the words and ideas that became the bones of the song were written the days after a vivid experience in Lewes for Bonfire Night."

He adds of the self-directed video, "Lockdown Britain forced us (my wife Tsouni and I) into making our directorial debut and this is the outcome. A moving snapshot of the year through the medium of everyday objects. The record moves from winter through the seasons and back to winter... We end up back where we began... It's familiar, many of the objects are the same but everything has morphed."

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."