The plenitude of playfully sophisticated U.K. dance-pop shows no signs of diminishing. An unassuming group of Cambridge students, Clean Bandit started out as a string quartet, but bassist/keyboardist/producer Jack Patterson kept adding beats to their classical pieces on the sly. Before long, the foursome – violinist/singer Grace Chatto, drummer Luke Patterson (Jack's brother) and violinist/DJ Neil Amin-Smith – had been transformed, boasting tracks that possessed the most breathless, glimmering, 2-steppin' elan this side of Disclosure (with whom they toured). An endorsement followed from Rudimental, who signed Clean Bandit to their label Black Butter.
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