With one eye on the past, they pushed pop music into the future

Crisp drums, juicy chords, irresistible hooks—Disclosure may have modeled their music after '90s house and U.K. garage, but their debut album couldn't have sounded fresher when it dropped in 2013. Brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence were just kids when their favourite styles were last in vogue, and they bring the right balance of innocence and insouciance to swinging drums and plunging organ basslines, while vocalists like Sam Smith and AlunaGeorge lend a soulful shine to the impeccably polished productions.