| Mind Reader | |
| Cover: | Mind-Reader.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Silverchair |
| Album: | Young Modern |
| Released: | 23 February 2008 |
| Recorded: | 2006 |
| Genre: | Alternative rock, hard rock |
| Length: | 3:07 |
| Label: | Eleven Records |
| Producer: | Nick Launay David Bottrill Daniel Johns |
| Prev Title: | If You Keep Losing Sleep |
| Prev Year: | 2007 |
"Mind Reader" is a song by Australian alternative rock band, Silverchair, from their fifth studio album, Young Modern. The song was sent to Australian radio stations in January 2008 and released as the fourth and final single from the album.[1] [2] The song was co-written by the group's lead singer-guitarist, Daniel Johns, with Julian Hamilton of The Presets,[3] who is responsible for the "don't know what you want" chorus. The single was released on 23 February 2008, as a digital download. It was the last Silverchair single – the group have been on an "indefinite hiatus" from May 2011.[4]
Danielle O'Donoghue caught their live performance in May 2007 in Adelaide and felt that their "[n]ew song 'Mind Reader' fitted in well with the band's heavier rock past".[5] Sean Lynch reviewed Young Modern for WebWombat and noted that there were times when Johns' vocals became annoying "you wish you could pull Johns aside and just say 'Mate, you sound like a dickhead - use that voice of yours and stop fucking up a potentially great song' (most notably on 'Mind Reader')".[6] Matt Neal of The Standard rated Young Modern at No. 15 in his list of Top 100 Albums of '00s and praised the "deranged riffing" of "Mind Reader".[7]
The live music video was footage from the Across the Great Divide tour in Melbourne.