Modern Studies is a chamber pop band based between Scotland and Lancashire.

The group has released four studio albums and a remix collaboration, all on Fire Records.

The band was founded in 2015 by Emily Scott, who had been writing songs on an antique harmonium in her home in Glasgow.

She arranged to give the instrument to a friend, Pete Harvey, who owned a recording studio called Pumpkinfield in Perthshire, and together they began working on Scott's material with drummer Joe Smillie and multi-instrumentalist Rob St.

[3] A follow-up, Welcome Strangers, was released in 2018, and this album was remixed in collaboration with Tommy Perman and issued as Emergent Slow Arcs in 2019.