Disclosure
“Help Me Lose My Mind” (f/ London Grammar)
Settle (out now on PMR)
There’s no better way to close out Disclosure Week than with Settle‘s moody closer, “Help Me Lose My Mind.” Enlisting the warm, husky vocals of London Grammar frontwoman Hannah Reid, Guy and Howard Lawrence bid farewell to their debut LP in elegant style. The track details the sweet surrender of falling in love, and it is an intoxicating way to bookend a thoroughly engulfing, utterly brilliant album.
Settle isn’t perfect, but it’s the strongest electronic-focused debut in years* and suggests that Disclosure will more than outlive any ephemeral post-dubstep/future garage/PBR&B micro-genre that detractors have tried to lump them in. Simply put, it’s an absolute triumph from two young men with a hell of a lot to say.
*James Blake’s 2011 self-titled debut is the only recent thing that comes close, though I think Settle will surpass it.
