“Shasta” by Modern Nature

Modern Nature have released a video for their new single, entitled “Shasta,” off their album The Heat Warps, which dropped earlier this year. Jack Cooper shares, “I wrote the words to this song when I was looking out the window driving through Northern California in 2024. For about an hour of the drive Mount Shasta loomed in the distance. Obscured by silhouettes of pine, mist and steamy van windows. It looked like Mount Doom. A lot of The Heat Warps words were written whilst looking out of a van window. Shasta didn’t quite make the record. At the time I felt it didn’t quite fit and changed the flow of the album. Important things! In the intervening months, I’ve revisited it and seen something in it that I didn’t at the time. It’s on a flexi-disc that came with a special edition of the album, but I wanted everyone to hear it. So to coincide with our West Coast shows that begin a stones throw from Shasta in Arcata…here it is.”

For all the grimmer realities of 2025 that the new album wrestles with, it is ultimately not a record entirely consumed by anxieties. The record’s themes and lyrics are directed toward the community they’ve built in their immediate life and with their fans who are “struggling to reconcile how they fit into an increasingly cruel world.” It acts as a siren call to the community to double down with the hope that making an album that’s open, uplifting and ambitious is in itself can be part of the solution.

Modern Nature includes Jack Cooper (vocals, guitar), Jim Wallis (drums) and Jeff Tobias (bass guitar) augmented by a new guitarist – Tara Cunningham.

Modern Nature 2025-2026 Tour Dates

12/10/25: Arcata, CA @ The Miniplex
12/12/25: Seattle, WA @ Clock Out Lounge
12/13/25: Portland, OR @ Holocene
12/14/25: Point Reyes, CA @ Dance Palace
12/15/25: San Francisco, CA @ 4 Star Theater
12/17/25: Los Angeles, CA @ Gold Diggers
12/18/25: Los Angeles, CA @ Gold Diggers
1/13/26: Boston, MA @ The Rockwell
1/14/26: Montreal, QC @ Casa Del Popolo
1/15/26: Toronto, ON @ Monarch Tavern
1/16/26: Detroit, MI @ Moodor Cafe
1/17/26: Chicago, IL @ Constellation
1/19/26: Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
1/20/26: Asheville, NC @ Ayurprana Listening Room
1/21/26: Durham, NC @ Perfect Lovers
1/22/26: Washington, DC @ DC9
1/23/26: Philadelphia, PA @ Milkboy
1/24/26: Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool