After 15 years of collaborative experiences and cheering each other on from various distances, Zachary Toporek and Jason P. Woodbury have finally teamed up on Amassed Like a Rat King. Toporek is best known as the leader of 1970s pop-style collective Dad Weed, while Woodbury fronts spooky desert-jangle combo JPW (alongside his work with the eclectic online music magazine Aquarium Drunkard). Uniting the strands of their crisscrossing musical sensibilities, the duo’s collaborative debut sprawls across 11 tracks of hypnotic psych-folk, mid-century pop fantasias, and ‘90s alt-pop bliss-outs.
"It's Happening" is the second digital single to be released from the album Amassed Like a Rat King by JPW & Dad Weed, and is now available as of today on all digital music platforms.
Jesse Locke on “It’s Happening”:
It’s all happening on “It’s Happening.” JPW & Dad Weed glide into a winding, insistent groove, mesmerizing like snake charmers with a junk shop’s worth of ramshackle flourishes. Handclaps propel low-down basslines, shakers flutter over softly uttered vocals, and organs squelch throughout transcendent guitar solos. There’s something happening here — something you can feel from your head down to your toes—and even deeper within.
Watch the Official Lyric Video here:
