"Backbone, which features Stormzy, sees the London pair return to drum and bass, with the genre currently experiencing a resurgence in the music charts.
Figures from the Official Charts company show dance and drum and bass consumption has increased nearly 13% in 2024 when compared to last year.
Will Kennard, who first released music as Chase & Status alongside Saul Milton in 2003, tells the BBC “you cannot replicate” the feeling of going clubbing.
But the success of their track comes at a time when fewer people are attending nightclubs, according to the Night Time Industries Association - yet dance music remains incredibly popular.
“I grew up going to small clubs and that’s where we fell in love with the music we make,” Kennard says.
“It’s a totally different thing doing a big concert to thousands of people with all the production to a small club experience".
He says that for dance music artists there’s a “dangerous trap” where they only make music to appeal to bigger crowds.
- Annabel Rackham - bbc.com