Modern Studies
Scottish quartet Modern Studies unite pastoral chamber pop and folk with a gently experimental approach. Incorporating lush harmonies, jazz-tinged rhythms, and subtle electronics, the band have produced a string of elaborate full-lengths including 2018's Welcome Strangers and 2022's We Are There.
Modern Studies formed in 2015 around the songwriting of Glaswegian musician Emily Scott. Having recently written a set of songs on an antique pedal harmonium, which she was about to donate to her friend Pete Harvey's studio, Scott's material soon became the center of a new collaboration with Harvey, Joe Smillie, and Rob St. John. The group of multi-instrumentalists assembled at Harvey's Pumpkinfield studio in rural Perthshire and adorned Scott's thoughtful tunes with cello, analog synths, double bass, drums, and a variety of other tones, emerging with their full-length debut, Swell to Great. Released by Scottish label Song, By Toad in September 2016, the album became a critical success, making MOJO Magazine's Top 20 year-end list. In addition to their LP, Modern Studies were also featured on a 2015 tribute compilation of songs by U.K. folk legend Shirley Collins called Shirley Inspired. In November 2016, Swell to Great was reissued worldwide by Fire Records.
In 2017, the band began recording their sophomore record. They returned to Harvey's Pumpkinfield studio and acquired a grant that allowed them to hire a chamber orchestra and a village hall in which to record the album. Welcome Strangers was released in 2018. Artist and sound designer Tommy Perman then crafted a vastly different electronic interpretation of the album, Emergent Slow Arcs, which was issued in 2019. Modern Studies returned to business in May 2020 with their third full-length, The Weight of the Sun, folding in more electronic elements as well as a Krautrock influence. Released two years later, fourth album We Are There saw their ever-expanding palette touch on lush string-laden Baroque pop, dark jazzy rhythms, and twilit harmonies.
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Discografia
21 album • Ordinato per Bestseller
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Cassandra
Musica alternativa e indie - Pubblicato da Fire Records il 29 nov 2022
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Welcome Strangers
Folk - Pubblicato da Fire Records il 18 mag 2018
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The Weight of the Sun
Musica alternativa e indie - Pubblicato da Fire Records il 8 mag 2020
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We Are There
Musica alternativa e indie - Pubblicato da Fire Records il 18 feb 2022
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Swell To Great
Musica alternativa e indie - Pubblicato da Fire Records il 4 ago 2017
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Mothlight
Musica alternativa e indie - Pubblicato da Fire Records il 3 feb 2022
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Life Flows in Endless Song
Musica alternativa e indie - Pubblicato da Fire Records il 10 dic 2020
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Emergent Slow Arcs
Musica alternativa e indie - Pubblicato da Fire Records il 26 lug 2019
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The Body Is a Tide
Musica alternativa e indie - Pubblicato da Fire Records il 18 feb 2021
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Ephemeris Mist
Musica alternativa e indie - Pubblicato da Fire Records il 17 mag 2019
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Heavy Water
Musica alternativa e indie - Pubblicato da Fire Records il 20 feb 2020
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Faraway Hills
Ambient - Pubblicato da Fire Records il 10 lug 2019
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Light a Fire
Musica alternativa e indie - Pubblicato da Fire Records il 5 gen 2022
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Wild Ocean
Musica alternativa e indie - Pubblicato da Fire Records il 15 nov 2021
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Spectral Cannon (Alternative Version)
Musica alternativa e indie - Pubblicato da Fire Records il 27 nov 2019
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Jacqueline
Musica alternativa e indie - Pubblicato da Fire Records il 23 apr 2020
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Run for Cover
Musica alternativa e indie - Pubblicato da Fire Records il 2 apr 2020
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