Your Neighbors' newest single, "Outta My Mind," draws you in with hypnotic baubles moments before giving you a head-first plunge into a cascade of higher highs. Fronted by songwriter and producer Walker Robinson, the indie-pop outfit specializes in tracks that are as reckless as they are intoxicating. With open arms, it leans into the beauty of self-destruction.
A fever dream that refuses to let go from start to finish, "Outta My Mind" launches into a whirl of deformed vocal samples and glitchy textures, as if an old arcade machine were coming to life. "Outta My Mind" wriggles and swirls underneath Robinson's crooning, his voice dancing between seduction and surrender. "Whatever makes my day, my god's, And it's bound to change, but My god's whatever's feelin' my pain. Well, take the reins. Under my skin, it's so thin. Gimme some of that cardinal sin."
It's a confession, a plea, a declaration of devotion to whatever power will quiet the clamor inside his head. The production morphs around him, each sonic contortion dragging you farther into the delirium. It's indie-pop at its most surprising, sleek, and seductive one moment and full-on sensory overload the next.
With "Outta My Mind," Your Neighbors shows that letting loose occasionally is the only way to feel alive. And if this is the sound of falling apart, we are all in.