Clean Bandit Essentials

Cambridge-based Clean Bandit often begin their songs with a flourish of violin—a nod to their roots playing together in string quartets in college. Their debut single set Mozart's melodies to crisp dance beats, but their taste for fusion goes even further, encompassing deep house, lilting R&B, dancehall and adventurous electronic details that are offset by the seductive smoothness of their melodies. Like their Black Butter labelmates Rudimental, Clean Bandit represent the modern sound of the UK: diverse, subtly experimental and committed to pop music as a joyfully unifying force.