Despite this early success, they’ve never compromised on their sound. At a time when chart dance music was dominated by millionaire producers making factory-line EDM for bottle service nightclubs, they showed that innovative British artists still has a place in the mainstream. “We’d never dumb down our sound, we’ve always made music with the same intention from the first track we ever put on Myspace,” says Howard. “So if people are connected to that, it’s good news for us.” Without ever meaning to, they’ve become the exemplar of how underground music can find success without concessions to the supposed rules of pop.
More impressive still, is how quickly they’ve accomplished so much. This time last year, they’d just put out their third single Tenderly / Flow: a patchwork of synth thrusts and torrid vocal loops. Like any decent dance record it got plenty of club spins and some night-time radio play, but it didn’t seem like they’d be heading to the top of the charts. The Face EP followed on Greco-Roman in June and featured both ’Boiling’ and ‘Control’ which succeeded in spreading the word about this young duo even further. At a similar time, they remixed Jessie Ware’s ‘Running’ which went on to soundtrack the whole summer. Then in October they released Latch, a soul-garage smoothie vocaled by Sam Smith which reached number 11 and sold over 200,000 copies in the UK alone. That was followed at the start of 2013 by White Noise, the collaboration with AlunaGeorge which, through word-of-mouth and sheer bloody brilliance, reached number two. New single ‘You & Me’, featuring Eliza Doolittle, sees Disclosure bringing the deep, 2-step underbelly of UK Garage to the charts for the first time. It racked up half a million plays on soundcloud and a quarter of a million views of the video in just over a week and entered to UK Top 10 as the highest new entry on release.
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More impressive still, is how quickly they’ve accomplished so much. This time last year, they’d just put out their third single Tenderly / Flow: a patchwork of synth thrusts and torrid vocal loops. Like any decent dance record it got plenty of club spins and some night-time radio play, but it didn’t seem like they’d be heading to the top of the charts. The Face EP followed on Greco-Roman in June and featured both ’Boiling’ and ‘Control’ which succeeded in spreading the word about this young duo even further. At a similar time, they remixed Jessie Ware’s ‘Running’ which went on to soundtrack the whole summer. Then in October they released Latch, a soul-garage smoothie vocaled by Sam Smith which reached number 11 and sold over 200,000 copies in the UK alone. That was followed at the start of 2013 by White Noise, the collaboration with AlunaGeorge which, through word-of-mouth and sheer bloody brilliance, reached number two. New single ‘You & Me’, featuring Eliza Doolittle, sees Disclosure bringing the deep, 2-step underbelly of UK Garage to the charts for the first time. It racked up half a million plays on soundcloud and a quarter of a million views of the video in just over a week and entered to UK Top 10 as the highest new entry on release.
Despite this early success, they’ve never compromised on their sound. At a time when chart dance music was dominated by millionaire producers making factory-line EDM for bottle service nightclubs, they showed that innovative British artists still has a place in the mainstream. “We’d never dumb down our sound, we’ve always made music with the same intention from the first track we ever put on Myspace,” says Howard. “So if people are connected to that, it’s good news for us.” Without ever meaning to, they’ve become the exemplar of how underground music can find success without concessions to the supposed rules of pop.
More impressive still, is how quickly they’ve accomplished so much. This time last year, they’d just put out their third single Tenderly / Flow: a patchwork of synth thrusts and torrid vocal loops. Like any decent dance record it got plenty of club spins and some night-time radio play, but it didn’t seem like they’d be heading to the top of the charts. The Face EP followed on Greco-Roman in June and featured both ’Boiling’ and ‘Control’ which succeeded in spreading the word about this young duo even further. At a similar time, they remixed Jessie Ware’s ‘Running’ which went on to soundtrack the whole summer. Then in October they released Latch, a soul-garage smoothie vocaled by Sam Smith which reached number 11 and sold over 200,000 copies in the UK alone. That was followed at the start of 2013 by White Noise, the collaboration with AlunaGeorge which, through word-of-mouth and sheer bloody brilliance, reached number two. New single ‘You & Me’, featuring Eliza Doolittle, sees Disclosure bringing the deep, 2-step underbelly of UK Garage to the charts for the first time. It racked up half a million plays on soundcloud and a quarter of a million views of the video in just over a week and entered to UK Top 10 as the highest new entry on release.
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More impressive still, is how quickly they’ve accomplished so much. This time last year, they’d just put out their third single Tenderly / Flow: a patchwork of synth thrusts and torrid vocal loops. Like any decent dance record it got plenty of club spins and some night-time radio play, but it didn’t seem like they’d be heading to the top of the charts. The Face EP followed on Greco-Roman in June and featured both ’Boiling’ and ‘Control’ which succeeded in spreading the word about this young duo even further. At a similar time, they remixed Jessie Ware’s ‘Running’ which went on to soundtrack the whole summer. Then in October they released Latch, a soul-garage smoothie vocaled by Sam Smith which reached number 11 and sold over 200,000 copies in the UK alone. That was followed at the start of 2013 by White Noise, the collaboration with AlunaGeorge which, through word-of-mouth and sheer bloody brilliance, reached number two. New single ‘You & Me’, featuring Eliza Doolittle, sees Disclosure bringing the deep, 2-step underbelly of UK Garage to the charts for the first time. It racked up half a million plays on soundcloud and a quarter of a million views of the video in just over a week and entered to UK Top 10 as the highest new entry on release.
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