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Lammping / Drew Smith / Marker Starling - RISKY
Lammping / Drew Smith / Marker Starling - RISKY
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Toronto’s shape-shifting psych project, LAMMPING, continues its ambitious four-album series with this lush, immersive collaboration between Drew Smith (Dr. Ew, The Bicycles) and Chris Cummings (Marker Starling).
Where Never Never mashed up boom-bap beats and rockabilly psych, this album drifts into deeper, more melodic territory — “CSNY harmonies over early-’90s hip-hop drums, fuzzed-out guitars, and synth textures,” as Galkin describes it. The result feels both strange and familiar: a warm, analog dream slowly unraveling in real time. “It started out as a pretty, almost yacht rock record,” says Galkin. “But the more we recorded, the darker and heavier it got — it’s like a heavy-psyched out yacht rock album, if the yacht was sinking the whole time.”
The album’s influences reach far beyond rock and hip-hop, pulling inspiration from ‘60s and ‘70s vocal jazz (Ahmad Jamal’s The Bright, The Blue and the Beautiful, Duke Pearson’s How Insensitive) and psychedelic pop (Spanky and Our Gang). The result is something Chris Cummings calls “a pocket universe of its own — emotional but focused, like a dream sequence that knows exactly where it’s going.”
As with Never Never, the record also features interlude-style instrumental remixes that thread the album together, blurring the line between studio experiment and concept piece. It’s a testament to Lammping’s evolution from psych-rock origins to full-blown production duo — where genre lines dissolve and everything, somehow, still sounds like Lammping.
Where Never Never mashed up boom-bap beats and rockabilly psych, this album drifts into deeper, more melodic territory — “CSNY harmonies over early-’90s hip-hop drums, fuzzed-out guitars, and synth textures,” as Galkin describes it. The result feels both strange and familiar: a warm, analog dream slowly unraveling in real time. “It started out as a pretty, almost yacht rock record,” says Galkin. “But the more we recorded, the darker and heavier it got — it’s like a heavy-psyched out yacht rock album, if the yacht was sinking the whole time.”
The album’s influences reach far beyond rock and hip-hop, pulling inspiration from ‘60s and ‘70s vocal jazz (Ahmad Jamal’s The Bright, The Blue and the Beautiful, Duke Pearson’s How Insensitive) and psychedelic pop (Spanky and Our Gang). The result is something Chris Cummings calls “a pocket universe of its own — emotional but focused, like a dream sequence that knows exactly where it’s going.”
As with Never Never, the record also features interlude-style instrumental remixes that thread the album together, blurring the line between studio experiment and concept piece. It’s a testament to Lammping’s evolution from psych-rock origins to full-blown production duo — where genre lines dissolve and everything, somehow, still sounds like Lammping.
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