Settle

Their debut album, Settle, further delivers on that boundary-busting promise with a perfect mix of sample-driven techno and deep house minimalism, soulful and snappy vocal bangers and left-field mid-tempo jams. It’s a pop record, a history lesson and – for those uninitiated in the funky UK house tradition – a gateway drug all in one.

There’s nothing very new about the sound, but there’s a freshness and intelligence in the Lawrence brothers’ discovery of it.

It's the fact that Disclosure make bookish, aurally factual electronica sound so carefree that makes Settle such an artistic success.

Though their brand of dance music is indeed a squeaky clean one, Settle doesn't feel like it's trying to be an underground dance music record.

It’s not perfect ... but it’s a consistently thrilling debut.

At the frighteningly young ages of only 22 and 19 respectively, they have given us a bold, thoughtful dance record that works from beginning to end. Settle has the rare distinction of moving the body, the mind and the heart in equal measure.

Fortunately, Settle doesn't settle; each new track finds them testing their own formulas. 

Festival season is theirs for the taking.

Settle is a soulful, accomplished and versatile record. 

On Settle, the fresh electronic music duo known as Disclosure brings a series of house and garage-inspired dance numbers that groove excitingly. Some of the vocal guests are pretty spectacular as well. Even if you're not nutty about dance music, give it a try.

These bros know how even subtle tweaks can turn the pedestrian ecstatic.

Throughout, ‘Settle’ will blind you with so much sheen you’ll want to tile your bathroom in it.

If anything prevents it from being an instant classic, it’s that it’s simply not risky enough to be a game changer.

Settle is by no means a terrible record, but it is far from a great one ... in terms of both quality and innovation it has become painfully obvious they’ve lost their way.

Two of these cuts have already graced the top 10; the rest of Disclosure's debut album showcases a sound in which the echoes of two-step, UK funky and older house records recombine into a surprisingly timely and moreish soundtrack.

Disclosure are still young, and in terms of its aims – combining house music and pop for a young British audience currently captivated with the idea of the former but reliant on the hooks of the latter – Settle succeeds.

The great hopes of dance music prove very, very smooth.

Disclosure have found an erratic blend of deep house and pop that, while not entirely original, has moments of greatness. 

Settle ends up being a wonderful compilation of other famous voices. There's the occasional flicker of real promise outside of the star power, but aside from that, it's a record carried by other people. 

Featuring track after track of drab, methodical beats plodding along laboriously behind finicky little hihat moves and quacking synth lines, it's the kind of dance music that makes dancing a dreary duty.

A couple of kids with a laptop, protocols and access to fame-hungry ‘soul’ vocalists do not timeless quality make. I listened, I tried, I waited for a, any slightly involving track with any character beyond quality mastering, and it did not come.