This one grabs you by the collar and drags you into the pit of discomfort because โSpiked (Mind Eraser)โ is Isaac Neilson holding a match to his own trauma and letting it burn loud enough for the room to hear. The first thing that lands is the tension. His voice comes in tight, clipped, and clenched, like someone trying to stay calm while the floor is giving way underneath them. The verses sit low and cold, almost spoken, like the world has suddenly gone distant and underwater. The drums pulse like a racing heartbeat you canโt steady. And then the chorus hitsโhard. The guitars crash in with this frantic, wired intensity, overwhelming by design. Itโs panic translated into sound.
That push-and-pull is quiet lucidity to frantic collapse, mirroring the experience heโs writing from. Itโs the sound of being in your own body but not in control of it. A nightmare where youโre wide awake.
Lyrically, thereโs no melodrama. He doesnโt embellish. He doesnโt need to. The horror is in the clarity. The song moves between victim and perpetrator perspectives, which keeps the listener off balance in exactly the way the subject demands. Itโs disorienting in the right wayโnever exploitative, always purposeful. The way Neilson pushes out the words has that Dominic Fike looseness threaded through Fontaines D.C. bite. But the emotional edge here leans more Radiohead: the world closing in without warning, the self slipping through your fingers.
The chorus is the gut punch. Guitars driving, drums pounding, everything swelling just beyond comfort. It simulates panic. It simulates being trapped. It makes you feel it. Thatโs not easy to pull off.
โSpiked (Mind Eraser)โย is going to hit especially hard live. Good luck to the crowd who will be going through it with multiple blood-rises-with-it experiences.
Neilson isnโt trying to make this pretty. Heโs making it honest. And thatโs exactly why it works. Check it out on Spotify.
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Review by: Naomi Joan