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How Disclosure revived house music

England has been responsible for some of the most memorable fraternal fighters in all of pop music. Think of the Kinks’ Ray and Dave Davies, or Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis — pairs known to fans for being at each other’s throats.

So you might expect something similar from Disclosure, the dance duo brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence formed four years ago in Southeast England.

“We used to fight all the time,” says Howard. Aha! Between the bouncing beats and slithering bass lines of the songs on their super debut, “Settle” — one of 2013’s most acclaimed albums, dance or otherwise — surely there were fisticuffs?

Nope: “We did that thing where you grow apart and come together again,” says Howard, who’s 19 (Guy is 23). “We didn’t really hang out as early teenagers, [only] as soon as we found a topic we both were interested in — early dubstep and garage music . . . so we decided we should try and make some.”

Have they ever. “Settle,” released in June, is romping and suave. At their packed live performances — they’re playing three shows this week at Terminal 5 — the brothers embellish prerecorded tracks with real-time accompaniment (Howard plays bass and keyboards; Guy, drums and guitar).

It’s a switch from their starting point: wistful, arty dubstep by artists like James Blake and Burial. “Dubstep massively took off in 2006 in the UK, coming out of Croydon, which we live quite nearby,” says Howard. “We started hearing more experimental things, more musical. That brought us into it.”

The core of Disclosure’s sound is UK garage, a swinging house-music variant that ruled British clubs in the late ’90s. Tracks like “When a Fire Starts To Burn” are airy and syncopated in the same way as late-’90s artists like Artful Dodger.

“Settle” went to No. 1 all over Europe and is up for a Best Dance/Electronica Album Grammy Award later this month. “I don’t think we were particularly surprised that house music had an uprising in the US,” says Howard. “The US is where house music originates from.”