This week’s Pier Song of the Week on the Skratch N Sniff Alt Show goes to DizzyIsDead for his emotionally raw new single “spiderwebs,” a track that turns isolation, addiction, and internal struggle into something hauntingly cathartic.
Recorded at The Vault Recording Studio in Kelowna, British Columbia, “spiderwebs” explores the feeling of being trapped inside your own mind. Built around atmospheric production and emotionally direct songwriting, the song captures the weight of depression and self-doubt without filtering any of its intensity.
According to DizzyIsDead, the single was written during a particularly difficult period while spending a second Christmas away from family and battling addiction and depression. The image of being stuck in a spiderweb became the emotional core of the song, representing the cycle of negative thoughts and the lies people tell themselves when they feel unable to escape.
What makes “spiderwebs” resonate is the honesty behind it. Before reinventing himself as DizzyIsDead, Blake Lounsbury spent years building a career within hip hop’s independent grind culture, performing hundreds of shows and developing his music completely on his own terms. But eventually, he stepped away from music altogether, feeling creatively disconnected from the version of himself he had become.
The DizzyIsDead project emerged from that reset. Pulling from alternative, rock, hip hop, and singer-songwriter influences, he began creating music that felt far more personal and emotionally transparent. Since then, his audience has grown almost entirely through fan connection and word of mouth, with listeners gravitating toward the vulnerability woven throughout his music.
That relationship with fans has evolved into what DizzyIsDead calls the DXAD movement, a growing community built around openness, mental health awareness, and shared experiences among outsiders and misfits who see themselves reflected in the music.
“spiderwebs” feels like the clearest example of that connection so far. The song balances heaviness with release, never glamorizing struggle but also refusing to hide from it. Sonically, it sits comfortably within the modern alternative landscape while still carrying the emotional urgency of underground emo rap and melodic rock.
The momentum around DizzyIsDead continues to build as well. He is set to open for Sublime this summer at Sublime Festival before also appearing on the upcoming Reef Madness cruise later this year, placing him alongside one of alternative music’s most influential genre-blending acts.
Catch “spiderwebs” all week as the Pier Song of the Week on the Skratch N Sniff Alt Show, and visit snsmix.com/radio to find a station near you.
