LAMMPING collab with BLOODSHOT BILL? Never say Never. Never.

TORONTO-based LAMMPING – the brainchild of Mikhail Galkin and Jay Anderson – and their blend of psych rock and hip-hop production, team up with Montreal’s one-man rockabilly band BLOODSHOT BILL on new single, ‘Never Never,’ which receives its worldwide release today.

The spark for ‘Never Never’ came when the band reached out to the rockabilly legend – having previously worked together a decade earlier – and when Bill visited Toronto, a quick session was booked where one track turned into three, with the single taking shape around Anderson’s breakbeat-style drumming, live jams, and flipped samples.

“’Never Never’ was the first song that came out of this series of sessions, and it felt like a reset,” said Galkin. “I was getting back into sampling, digging through records, pulling loops, then flipping them into songs. There are certain voices that always stood out to me. I always liked Bloodshot Bill’s voice and how he manipulates it and felt it would be a really cool instrument, so to speak, to feature on our stuff. It’s pretty harsh at times, but then he can drop it super low when needed. He also shares a love of ‘80s rap. When we were driving in his car, he had LL Cool J, Run DMC and Ultramagnetic MCs playing and all that, so it made sense that this project happened.”

Paired with a hallucinatory video directed and edited by Galkin, ‘Never Never’ acts as a portal into the first chapter of Lammping’s upcoming four-part series, a celebration of psychedelic music, hip-hop, and the DIY punk aesthetic.

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(Cover art (c) Kagan McLeon)