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.
"What If I Were Dying" is the fourth 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 “What If I Were Dying”:
Jason P. Woodbury and Zachary Toporek’s tender voices come together on the cinematic album closer, “What If I Were Dying.” As vast as the Arizona desert, and equally ready-made for silent contemplation, this head-nodding groover builds up steam as it bounces like a tumbleweed, opening up into a stone cold funky bass line in the final seconds of Amassed Like A Rat King.
