Lammping / Drew Smith / Marker Starling – Risky

Toronto’s shape-shifting psych project LAMMPING continues it’s ambitious four-album series with the upcoming LP – a lush, immersive collaboration between Drew Smith (Dr. Ew, The Bicycles) and Chris Cummings (Marker Starling). The record follows Never Never, Lammping’s acclaimed joint effort with Bloodshot Bill, and finds producer Mikhail Galkin (a.k.a. DJ Alibi) and drummer Jay Anderson exploring a different corner of the project’s expanding sonic universe.Where Never Never mashed up boom-bap beats and rockabilly psych, the new 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 al