I think this could be a larger problem. If I back track into the /vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connection.php when it hits the run command the query and the bindings appear to be ok.

So then it gets into $callback is where the issue must be coming from.

If I print out the last query using the \DB::getQueryLog() function. I return this:

array (size=3)
  'query' => string 'select * from `tracks` where `title` LIKE ? or `artist` LIKE ? and `id` not in (?, ?, ?, ?, ?) limit 10' (length=103)
  'bindings' => 
    array (size=7)
      0 => string '%Daft Punk%' (length=11)
      1 => string '%Daft Punk%' (length=11)
      2 => int 338
      3 => int 377
      4 => int 3343
      5 => int 1185
      6 => int 1532
  'time' => float 27.33

But in my laravel.log file it shows something different:

select * from `tracks` where `title` LIKE '%Daft Punk%' or `artist` LIKE '%Daft Punk%' and `id` not in ('%Daft Punk%', '%Daft Punk%', '%Daft Punk%', '%Daft Punk%', '%Daft Punk%') limit 10