I Need Sleep – Fun Tunnel

Genre: Pop, Experimental, Tropical
Year: 2010
Location: Knoxville, TN
Label: Swim Slowly / Speed Tapes
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01. Warm Milkapault
02. Shitty Knoxville Beach
03. Speed’s Skiing
04. BOOMPCHUG!
05. Whatever…
06. Bad Tunnel
07. Speed’s Last Race
08. Somebody Swimming
09. Fun Tunnel (Traveling Through Plants)

I Need Sleep, to me, has become one of those bands that you constantly check up on because just about everything they do is either fun/interesting/completely unpredictable or all of the above. With their newest adventure, Fun Tunnel finds I Need Sleep diving into the world of Speed Racer. From their BandCamp, “Inspired by hot waves and max speed. Jams that will put you behind the wheel of a T-180 and into a realm of glorious sun-bathed shores. Racing is in the blood. The blood is on the beach.” Just from that, you really can’t take any of Fun Tunnel too seriously. The music is insanely strange, as most of it sounds like they threw a bunch of gorillas tripping on acid into a tropical band room where the walls are so brightly colored, it hurts your eyes. None of this should come off as bad, just make sure you strap yourself in for the ride!