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House | Monday 5th August 2013 | Ellie
Album Review - Disclosure's Settle
The DJ duo have headlined Global Gathering, toured with Plan B and played a sold out show at Space in Ibiza all at the tender ages of 19 and 22 and finally brought us their highly anticipated debut album Settle a couple of months back. Brothers Guy and Howard who both grew up in a small town in Surrey are feeling more than overwhelmed at the response to their debut studio album.
Disclosure describe their main influences for the album as a mixture of UK garage and house tracks from the 90’s. Looking back at the album the huge choruses on ‘Defeated No More’ and ‘Voices’ are huge highlights, while ‘Stimulation’ just makes you want to get up and dance. They also managed to add some slower beats to the album in the shape of ‘Second Chance’ and ‘January’, that's slow tempo and high pitched chorus hook offers the listener a more chilled out vibe than the rest of the album.
The Lawrence brothers got the opportunity to work with some amazing new and upcoming artists on their album such as AlunaGeorge and London Grammar and some familiar names like Eliza Doolittle, Jessie Ware and Jamie Woon. The album also features the massive tunes ‘Latch’ and ‘White Noise’ which made it to number two in the UK charts.
2013 has already been a massive year for Disclosure, as they were voted in the BBC R1xtra for Hot Ten for 2013 and also performed at Glastonbury alongside the likes of The Rolling Stones and The Arctic Monkeys. To top it all off, Settle rocketed to number one in the UK album chart beating the likes of Queens Of Stone Age and Miles Kane to the exulted top spot.
Several tracks off the album have already been remixed by some of the biggest names in house. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs have remixed Disclosure’s track ‘F For You’ and turned it into a house beat, whereas Flume’s take on ‘You And Me’ gives the song a completely whole new vibe.
Disclosure have come from producing tracks in their bedroom at the age of 18 and 15, to playing sell out shows in some of the biggest clubs in the world. These two brothers are certainly going to be sticking around.
Ellie Gentry
