Settle
by Disclosure

From paladisiac TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/02/2014 23:25 | #99578 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Electro-house or IDM, if you're accustomed to such genre classifications, then you'll have an idea what's going on with Disclosure. To (possibly) give you an idea of what they sound like: 01) "when a fire starts to burn" sounds like a behaving death grips atop ibiza, 02) "latch" sounds like sharon jones atop an araabmuzik jam, and 03) "f for you", my fav track on the album, reminds me of a playful hot chip track. Those are the first 3 songs. It's spacey, club-minded and soulful...and a lot of fun.

From dmercado 11/24/2014 06:07 | #127832 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Inconsistent? Humbug! This is one of the most consistent popular EDM records I've heard in a while, definitely more so than Daft Punk's.

The album starts out strong, ends well, and is generally good in the middle. I'll agree that the album loses energy halfway through, but at its core the album has a chill out vibe, so it's surprising it even builds up so much energy at the start.

Top 5 of 2013.

From RockyRaccoon TOP 100 COMMENTER 07/09/2013 20:00 | #80728 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Dance music can be a fickle thing. In the simplest sense, dance music should be more about the beat, something that is easy to dance to, rather than anything else, I mean it is dance music right? It should be about dancing. With that train of thought, you often get dance music that, if you just listen to an album of it, can be banal and boring. However, sometimes you can get a band that will add some intelligence to dance music, perhaps most expertly done by Daft Punk, in which the music is still danceable, but is also listenable. That’s what Disclosure does here with their debut album. They take dance music, and make it much more listenable. There are still moments here and there where the music can get repetitive, but generally speaking this album is pretty good, very interesting to listen to, danceable, but also enjoyable. This is a sign of good things to come from Disclosure.

Disclosure offer a heap of great dancepop tracks on their surprisingly impressive debut "Settle". The album is cohesive, the majority of guest vocalists bring their A-game & the production is catchy yet innovative enough to elevate them from the rest of the competition. Tracks like "White Noise" & "You & Me" are borderline stunning, so take a chance on this record if you're a fan of electronic/dance music. It's a lot of fun.

From JoaoMoreira 08/27/2018 23:29 | #220178 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Not a bad effort but they still had a lot to learn.
The songs are too simplistic and concise and that works to follow a trend but doesn't last. It needed some extra work to reach good. Also the singers choice isn't the best since most of them sound like tv contest pop soul singers.