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Album Review: Disclosure – Settle

Disclosure have produced a club album that you can actually listen to sober again and again. Alex Donaldson reviews

Tuesday 18 June 2013

Label: PMR Records Release: 3rd June, 2013

The Lawrence brothers have pretty much defined the dance scene of 2013, their brand of brit-house has become a constant breathe of 90s air in the otherwise stagnant charts. Debut album Settle might well achieve what Daft Punk failed to do earlier this month. Singles ‘White Noise’ and ‘You and Me’ may be chart toppers but they’re only the tip of the houseberg.

Their ‘Intro’ begs the question “How do you get in the zone?” Well to be frank you just shove the next song on, ‘When A Fire Starts to Burn’, features a gripping spoken sample, and the best drop of the album. As an opener it serves to set the heart pumping and the bar MD-high. Thankfully – unless you have a heart condition – the trend continues throughout.

It’s an entirely vocal led album, with one of the brothers featuring on infectious handclapping ‘F For U’. The smooth vocals mirroring a liquidy bass, any club that doesn’t have this on the playlist within the week isn’t worth going to. Guy and Howard’s production is first rate and crucially, they avoid being sucked into the American volume war. ‘Simulation’ with its looping female vocals and steel drum breaks is straight out http://nouse.co.uk/2013/06/18/album-review-disclosure-settle Archived 11 Dec 2018 06:00:56 Nouse Web Archives Album Review: Disclosure – Settle Page 2 of 3 of the 90s whilst ‘Confess to Me’ feat. Jessie Ware is the sexual garage anthem we’ve all been waiting for; familiarly Caribbean influenced, but with that early grimy dub sound intact.

The aggressively titled ‘Grab Her’ is an interesting mix of Mike Skinner like lines and a TNGHT inspired riff. It’s still got that old school sound, but with a contemporary trap twist. Disclosure definitely take the opportunity to show off somewhat in their futuristic interlude ‘Second Chance’. Glitching vocals and percussion fluidity, couple to immerse you in an underwater sound.

Album closer ‘Help Me Lose My Mind’, featuring up and coming trio London Grammar, is the perfect warm down after what is essentially a constant mix. The down tempo, longing chords underpin spine tingling vocals from Hannah Reid. And with a finger click you’re delicately dropped into a refreshing ice-bath of a chorus.

Evidently, Disclosure have a formula which they stick to loyally, but let’s face it house music isn’t about key changes or fucked up structures, this is a club album that you can actually listen to sober again and again. This is pop house at its best, this British dance music at its best in years, this is the sound that will define the decade. Chase and Status better watch out, they’re idols no more.

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mp3origi 20 Jul ’13 at 11:20 am

Disclosure artist born in England, became active in 2010. previous albums were selling one of them is the album The Face, in 2013 issued a new album, titled Settle with Style / Genre House and issued 15 best songs..from mp3origi

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