Risky
Drew Smith, Lammping, & Marker Starling
Risky is a collaborative album from Toronto psych outfit Lammping, songwriter Drew Smith, and soft-pop auteur Marker Starling, released in February 2026 as part of Lammping’s ongoing four‑record series of joint projects. Across ten tracks, it blends hazy psychedelic rock with early‑90s hip‑hop drum grooves, smooth soft-rock/yacht‑rock chords, and silky vocal harmonies, creating something that feels at once nostalgically familiar and slightly off‑kilter. Producer Mikhail Galkin has described the record as a “heavy‑psyched out yacht rock album, if the yacht was sinking the whole time,” and that tension between warmth and unease runs through the whole set.
Songs like “No Consolation,” “Highest Height,” and “Up Above” foreground stacked, CSNY‑style vocal harmonies over woozy guitars and laid‑back beats, while tracks such as “Once in Sunlight,” “DFV,” and “Never Done” lean further into murky psych textures and subtly anxious moods. Lyrically, the album sits in a twilight zone between resignation and tentative hope, sketching scenes of emotional drift, fleeting moments of clarity, and the sense that comfort is always a little precarious. As a full listen, Risky plays like an immersive half‑hour daydream: a compact, cohesive statement that showcases how naturally these three artists’ sensibilities interlock.
Risky
Drew Smith, Lammping, & Marker Starling
Risky is a collaborative album from Toronto psych outfit Lammping, songwriter Drew Smith, and soft-pop auteur Marker Starling, released in February 2026 as part of Lammping’s ongoing four‑record series of joint projects. Across ten tracks, it blends hazy psychedelic rock with early‑90s hip‑hop drum grooves, smooth soft-rock/yacht‑rock chords, and silky vocal harmonies, creating something that feels at once nostalgically familiar and slightly off‑kilter. Producer Mikhail Galkin has described the record as a “heavy‑psyched out yacht rock album, if the yacht was sinking the whole time,” and that tension between warmth and unease runs through the whole set.
Songs like “No Consolation,” “Highest Height,” and “Up Above” foreground stacked, CSNY‑style vocal harmonies over woozy guitars and laid‑back beats, while tracks such as “Once in Sunlight,” “DFV,” and “Never Done” lean further into murky psych textures and subtly anxious moods. Lyrically, the album sits in a twilight zone between resignation and tentative hope, sketching scenes of emotional drift, fleeting moments of clarity, and the sense that comfort is always a little precarious. As a full listen, Risky plays like an immersive half‑hour daydream: a compact, cohesive statement that showcases how naturally these three artists’ sensibilities interlock.