Sung Tongs on LSD Broke My Brain

I thought I knew Sung Tongs. I’ve heard it a hundred times. But last night I took some tabs and that shit wasn’t music anymore. It was a living, breathing thing, stretching itself out and wrapping around my brain like some ancient, mischievous spirit.

The second Visiting Friends started, I felt like I was floating through a tunnel that never fucking ended. That guitar wasn’t just looping, it was whispering to me, curling in on itself, some endless spiral of sound. And the vocals? I don’t even know how to describe them. They weren’t words, they weren’t even voices. It was like Panda and Avey turned into ghosts and started wailing directly into my soul.

Then College hit and completely fucked me up. Those yelps and screeches weren’t human. I swear to god they were some little goblin creatures running around my room, shifting in and out of existence. And Mouth Wooed Her? That shit was dangerous. The way their voices warped and twisted, it felt like reality was splitting apart. Like if I wasn’t careful, I’d just slip through the cracks and never come back.

By the time Good Lovin Outside came on, I was a different person. I had been broken down and rebuilt by Sung Tongs. I swear I could see the sound moving around me, little sparks of color bouncing off the walls.

I’ve tripped to a lot of shit, but Sung Tongs did something to me. It wasn’t music anymore. It was some kind of force that had always been there, waiting for the right moment to crack my head open and let it all spill out.

Has anyone else had an experience like this? Or is there another album that completely fucking shattered you while tripping?