Thread of Disclosure

AlunaGeorge's vocals on "White Noise" still get in the way a bit for me, so instead let's dance to their live remix of "You Used To Hold Me":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSuDW0xzLCE

White Noise is probably the Disclosure track I've enjoyed most but that's mostly due to that bleepy hook rather than AlunaGeorge. Generally I'm still on the fence, I dunno there's something a bit flimsy about most of what I've heard.

the martial staccato of "latch"'s high-hat is pretty f'in great.. it makes me feel good whenever i hear it

the vocal bothers me on "white noise" but not enough to ruin the song - like matt it's the thing by them that i've really really liked, a lot of their previous singles i enjoyed in a vague sense but without any real spark.

"you used to hold me" cover (as with their artful dodger remix from a few months ago) just reinforces my impression of them as guys with really good taste but not a great deal of point themselves?

"flimsy" is about right. but they're pretty admirable, being teenagers and all.

though i guess it's all good if they're actually getting chart hits now. hmm wonder why it's happening for them where it didn't happen for ill blu, dj q, funkystepz et al

Oh yeah the groove is still ace, that was just my excuse to post something else.

"Flimsy" is one of those descriptors that is accurate but also gets at part of what actually makes them so great.

hmm wonder why it's happening for them where it didn't happen for ill blu, dj q, funkystepz et al

you're not really wondering this are you

that cover is f'n danceable btw

the only thing I've heard by them that I've really loved is their remix of Emeli Sande's "Daddy" (which is apparently blocked by her label in the US. *sigh*)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTHjmPKk64M

During the intro. to that first Disclosure song (up until he says it's our first fucking show in America) posted on this thread, I was like: what language is this guy speaking?

Which somehow seems appropriate.

My favorite Disclosure track so far is "Flow." Is that really generic? Maybe I am more open to ultra-generic house tracks because it's not a genre I've listened to much and I've been very slowly warming to it over the past few years. I was even shopping for shoes in a department store over the weekend and heard some house and even it sounded good to me. (What could they possibly be playing in Macy's or Sears or wherever I was that would be any good?)

last time I was in Macy's they were playing Active Child lol

the other thing about latch is that it brings the schaffel!

the vocal in "latch" is just a bit much though

you're not really wondering this are you

no, but i don't know the answer anyway

hmmmm, what do funkystepz, ill blu, and dj q all have in common that disclosure do not?

could it be that they're all in their 20s and disclosure are teenagers? no, that can't be it. still working on it.

Oh, that. But honestly, aren't those three artists all doing something newer and more adventuresome as well? I would think Disclosure's sound would be a lot more familiar to an American audience than the approach of those other three acts.

Would most of Disclosure's U.S. audience be that comfortable with funky and with the mix of genres DJ Q plays with?

(But maybe we aren't just talking about crossover outside the U.S.? Is Disclosure bigger in the UK as well? I honestly don't know. Sorry, talking about stuff I don't know about, but it's fun at the moment.)

tbf to the 12-year-old twins their music is pretty pop compared to the others in that list

talking about the times those others have collabed with vocalists

Let's not pretend that the infrastructure behind Disclosure is in any way comparable to any of those artists though. I mean the very idea of Funkystepz releasing a single on Moshi Moshi Records is absurd but still labels like that get traction.

(BRB off to track down that limited edition Champion tune on Fierce Panda).

It's not just about infrastructure. Or race. Though both come into play.

Disclosure are pitching to a much broader audience than Ill Blu, Funkystepz or DJ Q. Also they keep their targets simple and singular.

To use an analogy I may regret later, what characterises/ed all three of the latter acts at their most "pop" is/was a kind of thai cuisine sensibility, a balancing of sweetness / sourness / bounciness / menace / universality / for-the-heads.

While stuff with that feel can cross over in the right circumstances, from a strict commercial return on investment standpoint Disclosure's aesthetic of reproducing-familiar-vibes-with-precision is a much more attractive proposition.

White Noise is the only tune that's felt squarely pitched at a pop audience to me*, although it may turn out to be their Red Alert in that regard. But yeah they're clearly playing a game that the other acts aren't interested in playing.

*It's also simultaneously getting play on Radio 1, 1xtra and 6music and there aren't many records that manage that.

in disclosure's defense I am just now learning they are teenagers in this thread and it may be blowing my mind a little

Disclosure's music is pretty different to Ill Blue or DJ Q. They cross over into your Tensnake house type sets.

i like disclosure but really don't like the alunegeorge song ugh

and i'm someone who adores "latch"

I like Disclosure but I can't help worry what would happen if they lost whatever it is they use to make those pitch-bending sine wave melodies.

i like "white noise", "latch" and an early single called "carnival" but for me the crowning moment for them is still that jessie ware remix

Joe Goddard's mix of "Control" and Dixon's mix of "Boiling" from the Face EP are both really good.

I'm not so keen on the original Control, it feels kind of half-formed, but that Joe Goddard remix is an absolute monster and possibly the best thing he's been involved with.

"You & Me" is insanely good:

https://soundcloud.com/disclosuremusic/you-me-soundcloud-edit

That's pretty great, as usual.

2nd Matt DC on that Goddard remix

01 Intro
02 When a Fire Starts to Burn
03 Latch [ft. Sam Smith]
04 F for You
05 White Noise [ft. AlunaGeorge]
06 Defeated No More [ft. Ed Mac]
07 Stimulation
08 Voices [ft. Sasha Keable]
09 Second Chance
10 Grab Her
11 You & Me [ft. Eliza Doolittle]
12 January [ft. Jamie Woon]
13 Confess to Me [ft. Jessie Ware]
14 Help Me Lose My Mind [ft. London Grammar]

my coffee table aches with anticipation

Bless them for wheeling out poor little Jamie Woon again.

lol ikr

strangely disappointed that london grammar arent the naff uk raphop group i'd instinctively assumed they'd be

Huh, no Control?

this "ed mac" character sounds ominous

I was high on "You & Me" for a couple days.

^would make a good jessie ware lyric

haha

wot, no emeli sandé?

feeling this album a lot more than i expected to - the trackier stuff really works as a counterbalance

weepy version of "latch" that i am surprisingly into

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUK6HlzNWEg

kinda meh imo; adds very little
not a big fan of the original tho

yeah it's not great or anything but it works much better than the original imo which isn't very good at all

The original is great. This is alright but not quite as good.

i like the original, this is just okay

og "good kisser" is totally fucking awesome

this is fine

Love the original, love the remix.

hhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zznKafngPUI&feature=youtu.be

Another team up with MJB:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zznKafngPUI&feature=youtu.be

It's gone now. But was it this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6wJirn_dVY

Ooooh . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0fEgerNz0Q

i swear, mary will have released every song before the album drops. Wonder how well that's gonna play.

New song: https://soundcloud.com/disclosuremusic/bang-that

Not a new single nor necessarily from the new album as they seemed to say on R1, but I love this, didn't expect something like this, expected something more poppy like Latch Part 2 or whatever

http://thump.vice.com/en_uk/article/the-wild-story-behind-the-unlikely-sample-on-disclosures-new-record

is it just me or was that story not fully wild?

rly dope song though

You know what, I like "Omen".

good innit.

at first spin i thought it was weak and sounded like they had pressed a button on an automatic disclosure/sam smith single machine. then i played it 6 times in a row on my commute home and it has stuck. absolutely bothers me that i am enjoying anything related to sam smith - find him so boring and virginal. jimmy napes is his saving grace.

yeah this is good -- sounds like "defeated no more"

Another new track, I like this one a lot as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wc3RtxGftA

The best so far (and Latch-ier than the Sam Smith one). Can't stop playing it.

all the new stuff feels super stale. zeitgeist done changed, not strikingly so but as prior paragon princes it's enough to scuttle them

bashmore's mix of 'holding on' is dope tho - m/l shows the path not taken, splitting the difference between 'bang that' outlier venting and the dead ballad template

i'd suggest to investors that it could be a good time to wheel it back to 06/07 and buy up stocks in karizma as ppl get bored of regular ouse rhythms and kaytranda/soulection type herbdom grows on the low

Writing sell side broker analyst reports about dance music trends is basically my fantasy career.

I haven't been feeling any of the new tracks tbh. "Omen" sounded like a good idea, but possibly I'm just so tired of hearing Sam Smith's voice at this point that I can't even take it in a Disclosure context anymore. I dunno, hoping it all ends up sounding better to me when I hear the full album.

I'm not very zeitgeisty but I am also finding it difficult to get excited about any of these new Disclosure songs, though I do like the latest a bit more than the previous two.

Writing sell side broker analyst reports about dance music trends is basically my fantasy career.

― Tim F, Friday, 14 August 2015 15:58 Bookmark

hehe funnily enough iirc what first ever gave me the impetus was actually martin clark on dissens once saying it's certainly not what music appreciation should be like and me thinking yep love it keeping that

That just makes me endorse it all the more.

It, like, ALL sounds like "Latch."

So "Bang That" isn't on the album? That's the only new track I like!

http://gawker.com/is-disclosure-a-victim-of-its-own-good-taste-1733745303

I liked the new album a lot better when I realized they were fans of Kerri Chandler tbh.

Weird that this is one of only two references to soulection on ilx

seems target played a henry wu track on his 1xtra show this week, remarkably ('midtour' him at his most nu-bruk)

meanwhile annie mac's two hottest records of the week in a row recently were black coffee 'we dance again' and champion x four tet 'flipside' (vintage funky relick, see also the ace new katy b). that mele 'ambience' has probably got something to do with it too

i'm gonna make you rich bud fox

the first half of the new record is really good, early 00s basement jaxx vibes

It's pretty banging. "Ecstasy" probably better than anything on the album proper though.

i was just thinking about these guys yesterday, randomly. i still get annoyed when i remember how they slagged off shanks & bigfoot.

Not really feeling this :(

definitely a few jams on this

someone should have told me about "My High", this is my shit

btw “Ecstasy” is on the deluxe version of the album

posted this in another thread but the mj cole remix of "birthday" is so sublime

very good album. growing on me for sure. i wish more EDM in 2020 sounded like this.

"My High" rules pretty hard

Ces n'est pas for me. That song rips and exhibits production and arrangement perfection.

i really like this as a whole for sure. it'll probably place in my 10 or 15 for the year. idk why but a lot of if reminds me of post-blackout britney spears.

i feel like if any random "pop artist with stans" had released this exact album it would probably have its own thread by now.

it's pretty good and they have good instincts on how to pair their guests and beats. Birthday is prob my fave track.

love this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1zN-sEUc68