It’s in the saying: music is a drug. Under Delusion, a trio of sonic alchemists, internalized this notion right into their veins, brewing an exact, powerful, intoxicating single called “Music Is My Drug.” At once an exhilarating, winding rollercoaster of sound and a fever dream sewn from synths and guitars, it feels familiar yet jarringly alien.
It’s an entrapping track, like a call of the sirens, with its smooth production that embeds the modern into the crossbred sounds of Bring Me The Horizon and Royal Blood. There is, however, something otherworldly about this—something that remains vague, like a sort of dream haze that singularly sets them apart. The female vocals provide an exquisite counterpoint to the heavy instrumentation, much like a whisper in the hurricane. It’s a little like watching ballet performed by fighter jets: that strange, beautiful juxtaposition.
It’s a human condition in sound form: a perfect emotional rollercoaster with polished exteriors but raw vulnerability underneath. Still, its deep yearning to connect with others reverberates right to its very core. It is both a cry for help and, at the same time, a love letter to the void—a requiem for our digital age. Under Delusion captures the zeitgeist in an audio elixir promising healing and destruction.
“Music Is My Drug” goes beyond music—it is a manifesto, nothing less. It’s an outgoing war against the ordinary and flatly rejects any relation with conformity. Neon-lit, shining like an oasis of miracles in a desert wasteland called life, it may not be the cure for cancer or world hunger, but it surely does stand for very precious moments of getting out, regardless of life’s unending grind.
