Holding On

The first official single from Disclosure's sophomore album, this features the smooth baritone vocal stylings of jazz singer Gregory Porter. The Brooklyn-based singer's LP Liquid Spirit won the 2014 Grammy for best jazz vocal album. Disclosure's Howard Lawrence told NME how they hooked up with Porter. "I listen relentlessly to Jazz FM and other jazz-based radio stations, so he's always on in my car. I've been a fan for ages, so I asked my management if we could reach out to him and he said he wanted to meet us," he explained. "We ended up getting on really well and making 'Holding On' together."

The song was originally written by Howard Lawrence, Porter, and long-time Lawrence brothers' collaborator Jimmy Napes as a low-key ballad for the piano, which the Lawrence brothers then re-worked. Howard Lawrence explained: "Ninety per cent of all those song-based '90s garage and house classics are remixes of old soul and jazz tracks and we thought, 'Well, we don't want to remix a song that's been remixed a thousand times.'" "So instead we tried to write something that sounded like an old soul track, which Guy and me then took away and reworked into our own style. We kind of cut out the middle man – we were the original and the remix!"

The song's music video was shot in Mexico City and follows a woman who joins a group of people revolting against their totalitarian rulers. The clip is the first of a four-part anthology directed by Ryan Hope (Sam Smith's "Lay Me Down") showcasing a dystopian world. Disclosure explained: "We wanted to create something very different with our music videos this time around... something unique that would connect all the songs from the album and the videos in a special way." "This is the first of a series of four amazing videos directed by Ryan Hope that come together to create a short film… 'CARACAL'. As each music video comes out... The plot unfolds."