Lammping & Bloodshot Bill - Won’t Back Down
The new record from Toronto psych experimentalists Lammping comes out in 25 days, and Cups N Cakes is pleased to have an exclusive look at the band’s next single “Won’t Back Down” ahead of the song’s wider release tomorrow. Featuring vocals from Montreal’s Bloodshot Bill, the track reworks one of Bill’s own originals - first released on his Psyche-O-Billy album - into an eerie, slow-burning psychedelic drone built on gritty textures, ghostly synths, and warped guitars.
“Psyche-O-Billy is probably my favourite Bloodshot Bill album,” says producer Mikhail Galkin. “That song always stood out - it had a dark undercurrent I thought we could build off. I pitched the idea of reimagining it as something more haunting and psychedelic, and Bill was down to try it.”
What followed was a genre-bending deconstruction. “We tried to make the drums sound like a Black Moon or Mobb Deep record from the ’90s,” Galkin continues, “and then layered guitars and synths to feel like drones from an old Twilight Zone episode -or some lost ‘80s B-horror flick.”
The song definitely has some of that crate-digger aesthetic that the band is known for, whether it’s the tape soaked drums or the endless layers of ear candy that are scattered throughout the piece. And the vocals from Bloodshot Bill really do seal the deal; he’s got an inimitable vocal style, and it’s a delight hearing it recontextualized over the groovy psych-slurry of “Won’t Back Down”.
The full collaborative album Never Never comes out on June 27th via We Are Busy Bodies. You can check out the second single “Won’t Back Down” below, and it’ll be on all streaming services tomorrow, June 3rd.