Enter Shikari release ‘Losing My Grip’ featuring Jason Butler of Fever 333

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Ahead of their huge UK arena tour next month Enter Shikari have enlisted the help of upcoming tour mate and all round legend Jason Butler from Fever 333 for a brand new single. The song entitled ‘Losing My Grip’ is a punked up synth fest with Shikari frontman Rou Reynolds and Butler delivering performances full of character while lyrically dealing with the power the human race has over the future of the planet.

Speaking on the collab Rou Reynolds says: “We’ve known Jason for years now and have toured much of the world together… I think we always thought that it’d be great to collaborate on something when the right opportunity surfaced… This track certainly felt right. It required a thoughtful intensity, which Jason provides effortlessly in whatever he sets his mind to. We can’t wait to take FEVER 333 out on our UK and Europe tour, it’s been too long since we shared a stage together.

Touching on the stylistic and thematic influences he continues: “Losing My Grip oscillates between two of our favourite and foundational genre influences: drum’n’bass and hardcore punk. Lyrically, it’s about the immense power that our species now wields, and the pressure and weight that that adds to our lives. We’re the only species capable of destroying itself – and all others – completely and, increasingly, it appears as though we’re only too willing. Losing My Grip is about the fight to stay sane whilst living in a deeply and dangerously flawed system.”

Jason Butler adds: “I’ve always been a fan of Enter Shikari, yes, them as a band, but moreover, them as people. Yes, what they do, but even more so how they do it. They are an entity in their own lane and I’m honoured to have had an opportunity to swerve in it for a second and very excited to be rockin’ with them on this upcoming tour. We are gods.”

Check out ‘Losing My Grip’ below: