Toronto psych-rock weirdos LAMMPING are back with a genre-bending bang. Their new single Never Never just dropped via We Are Busy Bodies, and it’s a trippy, sample-stuffed collaboration with none other than Montreal rockabilly cult hero Bloodshot Bill. It’s also the first taste of their upcoming album ‘Never Never,’ out June 27—and it kicks off a four-album odyssey that promises to twist, flip, and melt your brain over the next year.
Check out the single on Bandcamp:
https://lammping.bandcamp.com/album/never-never
Watch the hallucinatory video:
LAMMPING’s sound has always lived in a swirling pocket between psych-rock and boom-bap beats, but Never Never takes things further out. The track slaps together dusty samples, crunchy guitars, breakbeat-style drums, and Bloodshot Bill’s totally unhinged vocals. It’s chaotic in all the best ways—somewhere between Thee Oh Sees, Madlib, and a cartoon bar fight.
This whole thing kicked off after Mikhail Galkin (LAMMPING’s producer and one half of the core duo alongside drummer Jay Anderson) got back into his DJ bag. After remixing Badge Époque Ensemble’s Clouds of Joy, he dove deep into his hip-hop roots—he used to produce under the name DJ Alibi—and started flipping loops and digging through crates again. That sample-heavy mindset bled right into the band’s psych-rock core, and boom: the new LAMMPING sound started taking shape.
Then Bloodshot Bill rolled into town.
“We’d crossed paths like 10 years ago,” Galkin explains. “When he was in Toronto for a show, we booked a session—and it turned into three songs.” BB’s voice, rough and elastic and unpredictable as ever, added just the wildcard energy the band was after. “It’s a harsh voice, but super animated. He can go really low when he wants to, and it’s just… expressive as hell.”
Never Never was the first track that came out of those sessions. Built on a sax loop that Jay found—it was hot, distorted, and kind of mischievous—Bill immediately gravitated toward it. “We were in his car, and he was bumping LL Cool J, Run DMC, Ultramagnetic MCs—all that ’80s rap stuff,” says Galkin. “So the connection was there already.”
The final version is a genre-fluid rollercoaster—psychedelic but punchy, noisy but groovy, with BB almost rapping his way through the track. “I love how weird it ended up,” says Galkin. “It never fully becomes hip-hop, or rock, or psych—it just exists in its own weird little space. I never get tired of it.”
And the video? Galkin directed and edited it himself. It’s a mind-melter—glitchy, warped, and drenched in DIY psychedelia. It feels like flipping through late-night cable channels after eating something you maybe shouldn’t have.
Never Never is just the first chapter of what LAMMPING has cooked up. The upcoming four-part album series is set to dive into everything from doom metal to crate-digger hip-hop, featuring collabs with Marker Starling, Drew Smith, Bloodshot Bill (again), and more.
This isn’t just a band referencing their influences—they’re inhabiting them, twisting them, and building something totally their own.
About LAMMPING
Hailing from Toronto, LAMMPING blends psych rock, hip-hop aesthetics, and a whole lot of fuzz. Fronted by Mikhail Galkin and Jay Anderson, the band has a crate-digger’s soul and a stoner rock heart. Over the next year, they’re dropping a four-part box set that digs into every corner of their sound—from heavy riffs to dusty beats—with a long list of rad collaborators.
About Bloodshot Bill
Bloodshot Bill is a Montreal-based one-man rockabilly wrecking crew. Known for his wild shows and ‘50s-inspired swagger, he’s been tearing up stages for years and won the 2020 Ameripolitan Rockabilly Male of the Year award. John Waters once described him as “like Roy Orbison with a head injury.” Which… honestly? Nailed it.
Follow LAMMPING
Bandcamp: https://lammping.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lammping/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1ZrzRmbuxvCeFSpEbFpbXZ
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lammping
Keep your ears peeled—this is just the beginning.
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