Shinshoku (Lose Control)

1998 single by L'Arc-en-Ciel

and Ray ReleasedJuly 8, 1998GenreAlternative rockLength10:08LabelKi/oon RecordsSongwriter(s)Hyde, KenProducer(s)L'Arc-en-Ciel, Hajime OkanoL'Arc-en-Ciel singles chronology

"Dive to Blue"
(1998)

"Shinshoku (Lose Control)"
(1998)

"Snow Drop"
(1998)

"Shinshoku (Lose Control)" (浸食〜lose control〜, Erosion) is the thirteenth single by L'Arc-en-Ciel. It was released simultaneously with "Honey" and "Kasou" on July 8, 1998. The single reached number 2 on the Oricon chart.^[1] It was re-released on August 30, 2006.^[1]

The song was used briefly in the background of the American film Godzilla and was included on the Japanese, Taiwanese and the Asean edition of the soundtrack Godzilla: The Album. "Lose Control" was ranked at number twentieth on the 1998 end-of-year Oricon single chart, where it sold 938,530 copies.^[2]

Track listing

#	Title	Length	Lyrics	Music
1	"Shinshoku (Lose Control)"	4:44	Hyde	Ken
2	"Shinshoku (Lose Control) (Control Experiment Mix)"	7:17	Hyde	Ken*

* Remix by Yukihiro.

Covers

Fantôme Iris, a fictional visual kei band from multimedia franchise Argonavis from BanG Dream! covered the song on their first solo live Fantôme Iris 1st LIVE -C'est la vie!-.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b L'Arc〜en〜Cielのアルバム売り上げランキング Retrieved May 18, 2011
^ "1998年シングル年間TOP100". Oricon (in Japanese). Yahoo! GeoCities. November 22, 1998. Retrieved August 10, 2024.
^ "それは幻想の一夜ーー「Fantôme Iris 1st LIVE -C'est la vie!-」ライブレポート。眷属たちの目に映る，銀の百合咲き乱れし王国". 4gamer.net (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-05-07.