Disclosure – The Sun Comes Up Tremendous
Disclosure’s first release of 2026 is a significant one. “The Sun Comes Up Tremendous” brings Howard Lawrence to lead vocals for the first time since their 2023 album Alchemy — and the shift in register is audible from the off. Where recent singles like “Deeper” with Leon Thomas leaned into club directness, this one pulls inward: layered synths, restrained vocals, slow-building tension, and — for the first time in Disclosure’s catalogue — a live orchestra, which Guy Lawrence conducted himself.
The song’s structure does most of the emotional work. It opens with a monologue of unbroken self-assurance — “bad things don’t happen to me”, “fortune is on my side” — and then the chorus arrives and pulls the floor out: the sun comes up, and with it, the doubt. “My heart feels so betrayed / maybe I made a mistake”. It’s a clean dramatic pivot, and the orchestra lands exactly at the right moment. What I find most effective is how long the song holds the brilliance before letting it crack, it earns the collapse.
The video, directed by Colt Grice and Moldyroom, was shot near the California coast at dusk: the two brothers face each other in an open-air structure as the light slowly disappears. Guy has said the setup will carry into the live show, with the track getting its own B-stage mirroring the video’s stripped-back arrangement. Disclosure head out on a Spring 2026 North American tour starting 7 April, with Coachella appearances across both weekends. The band say of the track: “Songs that we’re this proud of come to us rarely, but when they do, it always feels the same — like they’ve always been here, like an old friend you haven’t seen for a while”. Hard to argue with that framing after a listen.
