On 10 October 2012, Greg James announced that "Latch" was at number 39 on The Official Chart Update, officially entering the UK Singles Chart at number 26 on 14 October 2012, climbing 13 places during the course of the week. There’s no such thing as a perfect song, but 'Latch' comes close: it’s economic, beguiling, and precise." Commercial performance Jamieson Cox lauded the song in The Verge: "Latch" is a "song that remains this decade’s prototypical piece of dance-pop. Michael Cragg of The Guardian wrote of the song: "it's a slowly unravelling ode to the thrill of wanting to figuratively (and possibly literally) latch on to someone else." Jon Caramanica of The New York Times viewed the track as one of the duo's "least characteristic" songs, describing it as "less relaxed, more ambitious, more blatantly pop-oriented, with full-bodied vocals". " Latch has a tempo of 122 beats per minute. Guy Lawrence has declined to say definitively what the key of Latch is, but in a text message to Disclosure, Jacob Collier argued for the key being F minor, calling the tonality "a sick flavorsome F minor because all the bass notes are avoiding. using jazz chords and interesting melodies instead of boring, stabby EDM triads." Howard has stated that Disclosure is "trying to bring some soul into the songwriting. The band stated: "It's in 6/8 time - not even 4/4, the more commonly used time signature for house music." Originally, Disclosure thought that "Latch" was "too weird for the radio and not clubby enough for the clubs" because of its time signature. In 2022, American magazine Rolling Stone ranked "Latch" number 10 in their list of 200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time. In the United States, "Latch" was a sleeper hit, peaking at number seven on the US Billboard Hot 100 in August 2014. The lead single from their debut studio album, Settle (2013), the song debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number 26 and peaked at number 11. It was released as a digital download on 8 October 2012, by PMR Records. " Latch" is a song by English electronic music duo Disclosure, featuring vocals from English singer Sam Smith.
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