#destabilise

The single was the band's first release after stepping away from their deal with Atlantic Records, and continued the thread that 'Common Dreads' sparked — focused on both politics and unity.

Here's the story.

Before I start, a good chunk of what I'm about to say is from Luke Morton's incredible ES biography 'Standing Like Statues' — and I don't want to take away from that.

So, I'll only cover the basics. If you wanna know more, go read the book!

To put it short, the band had found that the major label life was not for them — the nature of a big corporation simply clashed with the spirit of Enter Shikari.

However, where most artist would falter after leaving a deal like theirs —

Enter Shikari were on fire.

Destabilise was a triumphant next step for the band. With passion, spirit, and love, the song has gone down in the ES books as one of their most popular and beloved cuts.

Compositionally, the song is rebellious and full of energy. The song's structure is unique and bold.

The main motif of the song is fanfare — a motif that carries through the band's whole history, but this is one of the strongest examples of how Rou uses brass to signify that Enter Shikari is only just getting started. Very similar to their use of brass on AKFTWW.

One of the most iconic things about Destabilise, however, is the line —

"Rory C, what's your thesis?"

Now, Rory had no clue how iconic this line would be. But, it goes down in the Enter Shikari lore as one of the most important questions ever asked in an ES song.

Ultimately, though. This song was a rebellious song that ushered in the 'A Flash Flood of Colour' era with a bang, and has only gone down as one of the band's most popular and beloved.

The song has over 5 million streams on Spotify, and is a staple of the live set.

It is their 4th highest played song of all time live (with 613 performances) and was debuted at Sziget Festival 2010, just over six months after the single released (August 13th)

Here's a video of the first performance of Destabilise!

According to the description of this video, Destabilise was actually a cover of the song 'Destabilise' by St Albans jazz-legends 'Jonny and The Snipers'.

This could in fact be accurate, but has never been fully confirmed.

Ultimately, this song is one of Enter Shikari's most pivotal and iconic songs.

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