LaMP Details New Album ‘One Of Us’ & Shares Gritty ‘Jasper’s World’ Single

LaMP — Russ Lawton (drums), Ray Paczkowski (keyboards) and Scott Metzger (guitar) — announced a new studio album, One Of Us, arriving on March 21 via Royal Potato Family. The trio previewed the record with lead single, “Jasper’s World.”

One Of Us follows LaMP’s 2024 release, Live At Nectar’s, captured at the famed Burlington, Vermont club where the band was founded in 2018. The new studio effort — cut at Ben Collette’s Tank Recording Studio in Burlington — marks the trio’s first since releasing their 2020 self-titled debut album.

“This record has more of a gritty, edgy sound to it compared to our first one,” Metzger said of One Of Us. “The first album felt clean and smooth. One Of Us has more attitude. It still emphasizes melody, groove, and accessibility like the first record, but this one feels like we’ve got some more miles under our belt, which makes sense since 2024 was a big year for our little band.

“Most of these tunes started from beats Russ sent around, and Ray or I would put down a harmonic or melodic idea we thought captured the mood of the groove,” Metzger added.

“LaMP definitely started with a sound right from the first show and it continues to grow as we write new songs,” Lawton said. “Someone will come in with a song — or I’ll pass along a rhythmic concept — and we’ll build from there.”

“It’s the next sounds of three musicians who are playing what they feel, and feeling it as one,” Paczkowski added. “The album is called One Of Us, but if there is a theme to this record, it might be ‘three of us.’ We’re all writers in the sense of courting some kind of inspiration, a melody, a rhythm, a vibe; feeling some kind of spark and bringing it to the band. The goal was to get a fire going.”

Preview One Of Us with “Jasper’s World” below:

LaMP is set to return to Nectar’s to kick off their spring tour in March. Scroll down for the band’s itinerary and ticket info.

One Of Us Tracklist:

1. Cosmo
2. One Of Us
3. Nice Girl (Walks Loud)
4. Stalker List
5. The River Jordan
6. Jasper’s World
7. Backfire
8. Ulterior Motives
9. Muckle On
10. Clipse-O