“We were told to stop making pop music and sent dance music playlists on Spotify and told ‘your music has to sit on here’”: How Clean Bandit fell out with Atlantic Records

Jack Patterson, Luke Patterson, Grace Chatto, and Milan Neil Amin-Smith of Clean Bandit.

Remember Clean Bandit, the Cambridge graduates who mixed strings with perky pop and found a winning chart formula in the early 2010s? In a new interview with the BBC the trio have revealed how they fell out with their record company and how they’ve adopted a new approach this decade.

The falling out seems somewhat bizarre. The band were a constant presence in the UK singles chart between 2014 to 2018, scoring four Number Ones with a string of guest vocalists.