Settle

Rating: 9/10 Best songs: When a fire starts to burn, F for you, Latch, Voices, Help me lose my mind

Actually quite good EDM! Catchy beats that kept me engaged for the whole album. Good pick

When a fire starts to burn, right, and it starts to spread? She gon' bring that attitude home, you don't wannt do nothing with your LIFE 4.5/5

Great album from its genre, some classic collabs in here.

It is a feat releasing such an impressive debut album when you are youngsters aged around 18 and 21. In that house / UK garage genre, brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence are obviously very talented. And impressive is also that list of guests. That being said, there is a clear imbalance between the stellar start of the record and its less striking second half. "When a Fire Starts to Burn", "Latch" (featuring Sam Smith), "F for You", and "White Noise" are superb bops. The rest is a notch under, if not lower. The lowest point of that second half is certainly "Grab Her!", which is running so thin on a single idea that the track becomes close to obnoxious instead of hypnotic (even though such near-grating music provides a perfect soundtrack for the hilarious video of the song -- also running on a single idea, but this time the variations make it worth a watch/worth a listen!). I also wish the tracklist had included the memorable -- even *legendary* -- Flume remix of "You & Me" instead of the very bland original version of the song in it. But I know things don't work that way, either for this generator or for how remixes get done. About the guest vocalists... It's kind of cool to have a part of the Jessie Ware origin story here, and London Grammar are as boring as I remember them to be. Apart from that, I don't have much to say about the other contributors. I can only acknowledge that Sam Smith does a hell of a job on "Latch", and I actually really like the vocals of one of the Lawrence brothers on "F for You". Looks like the Disclosure duo have it in them to sound almost as good as their guests vocals-wise. Wish he / they had sung more on this record, by the way. This would have made the whole thing come off as more personal compared to what we have here: a collection of house bangers and near-bangers that feels closer to a mixtape than to a bonafide album. Given that the second half of the album is not that efficient anyway, inserting some more experimental or idiosyncratic tones towards the end of the tracklist wouldn't have hurt, I think. In a close league, more recent acts like Bicep or Floating Points have understood this pretty well, even if they have never hit the charts as hard as Disclosure. To the user who submitted this: I really appreciate your usually quite benevolent words in your short reviews so far. Yet I am quite amazed at how harsh your grades are at times, especially compared to what you are writing about the albums. If I had followed that philosophy, my grade for *Settle* would be a 2, after what I have written up there... Yet *Settle* is certainly not a 2-star album (and please pay attention to my "general purposes" grading down there). Show a little mercy, OK? 😉 3/5 for the purposes of this list dedicated to essential albums. 8/10 for more general purposes (5 for the musicianship and production values + 3 for the artistry) ---- Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ---- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 118 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 129 Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 288 (including this one) ---- Ah Émile, je viens de me rendre compte que c'est à moi de répondre ! Je me suis emmêlé les pinceaux sur le suivi des messages cet été, on dirait... Petite question au préalable : tu as rejoint le serveur discord du générateur ? Et si oui, quel est ton pseudo là-bas ? Dis-moi juste ta réponse là-dessus dans ta prochaine review dès que tu vois ce message. Je te réponds ensuite en bonne et due forme dans la foulée (je vérifierai tes reviews tous les jours, j'ai moyen de le faire, je suis toujours en vacances...)

More remix stuff, found audio... not much to say about this kind of thing I haven't said before. I don't find this objectionable but it's not my preference.

Nostalgic

Not my favorite style of dance music, I got a little tired out listening to this.

Pretty run of the mill house music. I do house dancing so hear some incredible house music and if this came on, I wouldn't complain, but it isn't really all that great compared to what other DJs put out. My personal rating: 3/5 My rating relative to the list: 3/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.

Settle is pretty uninspiring house/electronic stuff, it's okay at times but mostly unoriginal and boring. Also fuck the deluxe edition, if you need three hours and multiple remixes to try to make your music palatable you've done it wrong in the first place. 2.

There must be a block to these submissions as it keeps happening. Three hours long album!!!! It was ok, but I am removing at least two stars because of excessive duration (even for a dance album). They also wanted the special edition, the other one which was shorter was not enough.

When a fire starts to burn Ive heard some times 3 2 Too long, goddamn The flume remix is pretty good though

2010s dance is just not it. Except from white noise.

I thought the appetite for such garbage was exhausted in the 1990s. Every song is a dirge for the thoughtless.

God I hate dance music albums. It just doesn't work as a concept, even if some of the tracks are nearly ok. Would probably have been on track for two stars if Sam Bloody Smith - one of the biggest asshats of the century so far - hadn't turned up and made a poor album significantly worse. It doesn't even have "Pompeii" on it (cos it turns out it's not by these guys) The song "White Noise" is decent I guess, but for the rest I would have preferred actual white noise