Watch Your Step ft. Kelis

Disclosure's "Watch Your Step" with Kelis is UK house music drawing on soul's vocabulary and arriving somewhere more interesting than either tradition alone would allow. The production carries their signature garage-adjacent groove: shuffled hi-hats, bass that moves with deliberate intelligence, keys that comp rather than dominate. But Kelis's vocal is what determines the track's altitude — her voice is husky and authoritative, carrying decades of R&B fluency without announcing it, shaping the lyric's warning into something that functions as both caution and invitation. "Watch your step" might be literal — a dance floor command — or metaphorical, a relationship caveat delivered with too much confidence to sound like concern. The track sits in the continuum of their best collaborative work, drawing on the tradition of house music that carries genuine emotional weight without sacrificing the physical imperative to move. It connects to a history of NYC and London club music that understood dancing and feeling as simultaneous rather than competing experiences. Best heard in a good sound system, late enough that your body has already made its decisions for the night.