Disclosure Bring Massive Beats and Lights to the Garden (Photos)

Disclosure‘s new album Caracal isn’t as fun as their debut but their massive sound and awesome lights made for quite a show at Madison Square Garden. While both Disclosure albums, Settle and Caracal feature a lot of big guest names (and the former allowed Sam Smith to break thru to big arenas himself), their MSG show didn’t pull out all stops and surprise with the biggest of names, Smith or The Weeknd though they did have Lion Babe (who also opened) on “Hourglass” and Brendan Reilly on “Moving Mountains” amongst a couple of others. The highlights from the brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence’s set were the soaring “Nocturnal” (even sans The Weeknd) and the older “When a Fire Starts to Burn” with its edgy pulse. Meanwhile “Holding On” (which featured Gregory Porter’s vocal) were reminiscent of a lighter Jazzanova track and it’s dark dub was another treat to hear in the massive arena. Fans were going wild as the general admission floor folks could be seen continual releasing bouts of energy in a dance frenzy. But Disclosure’s music, as the New York Times noted, “fills rooms, but it doesn’t move bodies in the interesting ways the duo’s early songs did, nor does it stimulate minds. At this lovely but largely tepid show, the brothers mainly performed behind semicircular banks of instruments: Guy, on the left, mostly on drum pads and keyboards; Howard, on the right, occasionally pulling out a bass for a taut, clever line.”