REVIEW: JPW + Dad Weed "It's Happening"

[Repost from Here Comes the Flood; by Hans Werksman, April 28, 2025]

Phoenix, AZ, lo-fi duo JPW & Dad Weed have made a video for It's Happening: "a scuzzy sounding exploration of left-field indie rock, as if the instruments have been gathering dust for a couple of decades. Somehow everything still works, which comes as a surprise for the musicians themselves. The bass and drums only interlude is a 101 for less is more, before giving way to a Tom Verlaine inspired guitar leading the way to a 60s Sci-Fi psych coda." It is a track from their Amassed Like a Rat King album.

» jasonpwoodbury.com

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HCTF review of Amassed Like a Rat King

REVEIW: JPW + Dad Weed 'Amassed Like a Rat King'

[Repost from The Shrieking Fox Punk; by Fox Wolf, April 26, 2025]

On the indie rock powerhouse label of Fort Lowell, comes “Amassed Like a Rat King,” via the collaboration between JPW and Dad Weed.  Firstly, 1000 points for using “amassed” as part of the title. I’m a word nerd.

Going into this, as I do with a lot of the newest rock material, I don’t really know much about the groups or projects. That actually kinda works out, as I can bounce into the album with zero assumptions outside of what the press kit says. It’s always a nice surprise, trust me. And, yes, this one was a nice surprise.

So, how does this LP sound? Fucking fantastic! Psychedelic indie rock with elements of jangle, pop and it’s certainly got its roots deep in alternative.  Like, there’s a solid shot of 90s goodness resting on a foundation of modern alternative rock building blocks. This is the kinda stuff I’d surely hear on my local indie station (especially if I worked there…) or one of my local college stations. Solid. Jam on.

Lyrically, this is some good stuff. A nice mix of catchy zing and graceful pop poetry; it’s the kinda stuff you can easily sing along with, especially in the car with the windows down. Hell yeah. Makes me hungry for a follow-up LP or EP.

If I really had to compare the sound to bands I know, I’d say it’s a mix of Breeders, Primal Scream, Dinosaur Jr, Love Battery, Flaming Lips, and a dash of Arcade Fire. I mean, it’s much, much more than these comparisons, but it’s the best I can say, yeah? Just spin it yourself, and you’ll see it stand out rather nicely on its own.

This gem is pressed on green vinyl. Limited edition of 100. Get it before it’s gone.

REVIEW: JPW + Dad Weed 'Amassed Like a Rat King'

[Repost from Anna Bartkowski; April 24, 2025]

I grew up with the sounds of the Beatles,the Beach Boys, CCR—some of the greatest music ever recorded. So when I come across new music that instantly resonates with me, I feel compelled to share it.

Full disclosure: I’ve known Jason and Zach for years—Jason is my son-in-law. But that connection alone isn't why I'm raving about their music. It’s because the songs truly deserve it. Give them a listen, and I think you’ll agree: the praise is well-earned.

Amassed Like a Rat King is such a brilliant album—I danced through most of the tracks. Yes, danced! And let’s be honest, we could all use the aerobic boost and endorphin rush that comes with moving to great music. Even my dogs were into it.

Check it out on your favorite streaming service—and keep an eye out, because the green vinyl edition is dropping soon.

REVIEW: JPW & Dad Weed 'Amassed Like a Rat King'

[Repost from Add to Wantlist; by Dennis, April 23, 2025]

New album: JPW & Dad Weed || Amassed Like a Rat King

Desert dreams and cosmic connections

Here we find folky psych pop that meets melancholic alt-rock, in a timeless kaleidoscope of sound and sentiment—solid but surprising.

The Two Against Nurture EP was a promising taster of the collaboration between JPW aka Jason P. Woodbury and Dad Weed aka Zachary Toporek, their first joint full-length Amassed Like a Rat King—the title track is an ode to Woodbury’s rural Arizona upbringing—lives up to expectations. The eleven songs emerged from friendship and mutual admiration, a shared ‘third mind’ situation and studio alchemy led to a captivating audio document of memory and motion. “You could call it God // I think I’d rather not (it’s happening)” we hear in the telling single It’s Happening, set to animations from IBM’s 1958 The Information Machine film. Probably it is the synergy of shared inspiration, creative minds and a cosmic connection?

“What you’re calling out // Makes me feel something” are the final lines of the elastic closing track What If I Were Dying, and that’s just the way it is.

Amassed Like a Rat King is out now digitally and on vinyl LP through Fort Lowell Records.

REVIEW: JPW & Dad Weed 'Amassed Like a Rat King'

[Repost from Here Comes the Flood; by Hans Werksman, April 22, 2025]

Phoenix, AZ based musicians Jason P. Woodbury and Zachary Toporek hade been eyeing each other's handiwork for more than a decade, before connecting for a joint project, named JPW & Dad Weed. After releasing the Two Against Nurture EP and the It's Happening, their debut full-length Amassed Like a Rat King lives up to its promise, with a wealth of meandering, scuzzy and fuzzy sounding explorations of left-field indie rock.

The funky Frightening sums up their style in nutshell: starting out as borderline radio-friendly tune for parents to pop in the player as they drive the kids to their soccer practice in suburbia, the song makes a sharp left to and comes close to falling apart amidst shattering drums and distorted guitar. JPW & Dad Weed are a duo that will be championed by the knowledgeable staff in independent record stores, who will be more than happy to point all the references and extrapolations. Cool kids of all ages will love it.

Amassed Like a Rat King is released via Fort Lowell Records (green vinyl, digital).

Tracks:

1. Amassed Like a Rat King
2. It's Happening
3. Everybody's Talking (Again)
4. Far Off Road
5. Frightening
6. Chain of Gravity
7. Not Sure What I'm Looking At
8. Figure of Speech
9. Straight Lines
10. So Brightly There
11. What If I Were Dying

OUT NOW: JPW + Dad Weed 'Amassed Like a Rat King' [Duet LP]

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).

• "Autumnal psych pop" — I Heart Noise
  
• "Sunny psych pop with a dark folk edge" — Add to Wantlist
• "A load of fun and have a sunny side" — If It's Too Loud
• "Free-flowing, gnarly power pop" — Here Comes the Flood

JPW + Dad Weed Amassed Like a Rat King is out now and available everywhere today!

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Kicking Bird 11 Short Fictions 

JPW + Dad Weed Amassed Like a Rat King

KICKING BIRD is for fans of: Arcade Fire, Band of Horses, Broken Social Scene, Blur, The Cardigans, Cheap Trick, Elvis Costello, The Dears, Foo Fighters, Jimmy Eat World, KISS, The Love Language, The New Pornographers, The Pixies, The Presidents of the United States of America, The Rolling Stones, Silversun Pickups, Surfer Blood, T. Rex, Two Door Cinema Club, Weezer

JPW + DAD WEED is for fans of: Amen Dunes, Barenaked Ladies, Calexico, Cornershop, Elephant 6, Flaming Lips, Gin Blossoms, LEN, My Morning Jacket, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, R.E.M., Todd Rundgren, Steely Dan, U2, Wilco, Link Wray

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OUT NOW: JPW & Dad Weed "What If I Were Dying" [Digital Single]

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.

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OUT NOW: JPW & Dad Weed "Far Off Road" [Digital Single]

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. 

"Far Off Road" is the third 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 “Far Off Road”:

“Far Off Road” brings the lights down low, casting a single spotlight on the whisper-soft vocals of Jason P. Woodbury as the song bobs along with a gentle pulse. Ghostly doo-wop harmonies and eerily processed guitar effects carry this avant-ballad into the realm of the otherworldly, like The Penguins set adrift on Brian Eno’s faraway beach.

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REVIEW: JPW & Dad Weed "It's Happening"

[Repost from Here Comes the Flood; by Hans Werksman, January 28, 2025]

Phoenix, AZ based musicians Jason P. Woodbury and Zachary Toporek have released It's Happening, a new single by JPW & Dad Weed project, serving as a taste from their forthcoming Amassed Like a Rat King album. It's a scuzzy sounding exploration of left-field indie rock, as if the instruments have been gathering dust for a couple of decades.

Somehow everything still works, which comes as a surprise for the musicians themselves. The bass and drums only interlude is a 101 for less is more, before giving way wo a Tom Verlaine inspired guitar leading the way to a 60s Sci-Fi psych coda.

It's Happening is released via Fort Lowell Records. The Amassed Like a Rat King album (green vinyl, digital) is available for pre-order here. Release date: April 22.

OUT NOW: JPW & Dad Weed "It's Happening" [Digital Single]

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.

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Watch the Official Lyric Video here:

Here are the first three Fort Lowell Records releases for next year

MindsOne Stages - Release Date: February 7, 2025 - PRE-ORDER HERE

• FOR FANS OF: 9th Wonder, The Alchemist, Atmosphere, Beastie Boys, Benny The Butcher, Big Pun, Black Moon, Kev Brown, Common, Da Beatminerz, D.I.T.C., DJ Premier, El-P, EPMD, Gang Starr, Hi-Tek, Hieroglyphics, J Dilla, Jay Z, KRS One, Little Brother, Lootpack, Madlib, Madvillain, MF Doom, Mobb Deep, M.O.P., Mos Def, Nas, Organized Konfusion, OutKast, Marco Polo, Redman, Run The Jewels, RZA, Sage Francis, Skyzoo, Talib Kweli, The Roots, Wu-Tang Clan

Kicking Bird 11 Short Fictions - Release Date: April 4, 2025 - PRE-ORDER HERE

• FOR FANS OF: Arcade Fire, Band of Horses, Broken Social Scene, Blur, The Cardigans, Cheap Trick, Elvis Costello, The Dears, Foo Fighters, Jimmy Eat World, KISS, The Love Language, The New Pornographers, The Pixies, The Presidents of the United States of America, The Rolling Stones, Silversun Pickups, Surfer Blood, T. Rex, Two Door Cinema Club, Weezer

JPW & Dad Weed Amassed Like a Rat King - Release Date: April 22, 2025 - PRE-ORDER HERE

• FOR FANS OF: Amen Dunes, Barenaked Ladies, Calexico, Cornershop, Elephant 6, Flaming Lips, Gin Blossoms, LEN, My Morning Jacket, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, R.E.M., Todd Rundgren, Steely Dan, U2, Wilco, Link Wray

JPW: Tiny Desert Concert

[Repost from KJZZ 91.5FM Phoenix; by Sam Dingman, December 16, 2024]

CLICK HERE TO WATCH FULL VIDEO

The Show's latest installment of the Tiny Desert Concert series features JPW.

Jason P. Woodbury has been in bands since he was in middle school. As he got older, he focused more on producing music as well as writing and podcasting about it.

He says when the pandemic started and he had more time to himself, songs started tumbling out. Woodbury joined The Show to discuss how JPW isn’t his first time leading a musical group.

Conversation highlights

JASON P. WOODBURY: I grew up singing in my family's church in Coolidge, Arizona. And I was, even like at a pretty young age, brought in to like lead the singing. So like a prepubescent JPW was like leading singing — and then a post pubescent one as well.

SAM DINGMAN: And I'm imagining the songs you were singing in church were religious in nature.

WOODBURY: No. All, all Scorpions and Megadeath.

DINGMAN: Can I join your church? [LAUGHS]

WOODBURY: [LAUGHS] Yeah, it was a cool church. ... All you know, very traditional protestant hymnal, whatever that would be. You know, it's interesting because I don't think that that sort of sacred or religious or mystical quality has ever really left what I, what I do.

DINGMAN: I'm glad you brought that up too, because I know, obviously we're talking about a very small sample size of your songwriting ura here tonight. Just three songs. But it does seem like they share a preoccupation with whether or not to trust feelings, kind of gazing at things that are being seen through mediation, whether it's eyelids or mist or water. Do you find yourself as a songwriter returning to certain themes over and over again?

WOODBURY: Yeah. And when I was younger, it really bothered me because I was like, I'm always writing about the same thing. But I think at least for me as an artist, it's just been learning to like, accept that those preoccupations are there and that maybe the most like true thing I can do is sort of run towards them. You know what I mean?

DINGMAN: I became familiar with your work through your commentary and analysis of music on the Transmissions podcast and in other places. Jelp me connect the dots between your life as somebody who talks to musicians, somebody who analyzes music, somebody who understands it at a kind of theoretical level and somebody who makes music.

WOODBURY: Yeah, boy, how, I don't know how to entangle it all. You know, it's like in listening to other people's art, I feel like I gain the ability to synthesize my own feelings through somebody else's work, right? And so that's what draws me to music. That's what draws me in is that I feel like the best music for me creates a space for the listener to enter into something, you know, whatever that is.

DINGMAN: Can you think of a moment in the Transmissions podcast — maybe there's been many of them — where you've been talking to a musician and you had this thought like, "Oh my God, they just said the thing that I have been trying to figure out in my own creative process."

WOODBURY: Oh, yeah. Actually the most recent episode, the one that closed our ninth season was an interview with Matthew Houck of Phosphorescent. And listening back to it, I was like, "Oh my gosh, like I was really talking a lot in this one." You know what I mean? Like, and I was really nervous about that. But then when I was listening back to it, there were these things where I would say something and he would say: "I felt like you were like a fly on the wall. Like that's exactly what I was trying to write about." But he said to me: "It's validating for you to hear those things and to, and to remark on them and to like, confirm for me that they're in there."

DINGMAN: I feel like you're also, you're describing my favorite kind of artist interview, where you're talking to Matthew and you, in the interview, don't necessarily know what you're looking for other than to get closer to whatever his source is. And he is a songwriter, maybe, doesn't even really know what he's writing about other than he's just trying to channel what's coming from the source, and you kind of find it together.

WOODBURY: Absolutely. Absolutely. And I think that's another thing that just over and over again I've heard from almost every songwriter I've worked with or talked to. I mean, the song comes from somewhere else and you have to just, like, make room for it. That's something I've experienced. You could think of it as, I don't know if you want to get mystical, some sort of shared thing that you're feeling and I'm feeling. And you listen to a song and you're like, this song is saying it for me. It's saying what I don't have the ability to say, and I think that's awesome.

JPW & Dad Weed 'Two Against Nurture' - 2024 in Review // Favorite EPs, Reissues and Albums

[Repost from I Heart Noise; by Ilya S., December 5, 2024]

“J Moss is a deeply authentic music maker. One of the most prolific recording projects I’ve heard of in recent memory, Modern Folk can be anything from fingerstyle acoustic guitar, to field recording laden soundscapes, to noisy spacious freak outs, to a free rock band full of friends” – Bud Tapes

J Moss, aka The Modern Folk, is no big fan of lists, by his own admission. Which is why we’re honored to have him kick off an overview of 2024 for us!

JPW & Dad Weed – Two Against Nurture (Fort Lowell Records)

FOR FANS OF: Amen Dunes, Calexico, Cornershop, Elephant 6, Flaming Lips, Gin Blossoms, LEN, My Morning Jacket, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, R.E.M., Todd Rundgren, Steely Dan, U2, Wilco, Link Wray

The dark is arriving earlier each passing evening. The veil between the spirit world and the land of the living grows thin. Into the glooming emerge Phoenix songwriters Zachary “Dad Weed” Toporek and Jason P. Woodbury, aka JPW, noted podcaster, liner notes author, and songwriter, bearing a bag of autumnal psych pop. Recorded in Toporek’s backyard studio between 2021-2024, these three tracks showcase the birth of a songwriting partnership between these longtime friends and collaborators. Operating like an ersatz Becker and Fagan, handling singing, writing, arranging, and production in a 50/50 split, these songs indulge their taste for ragged power pop, chiming folk rock, and even semi-improvised jams.

Further Reading: Add To Wantlist / Here Comes The Flood 

Songs of Our Lives #60: Jason Woodbury

[Repost from Foxy Digitals; by Brad Rose, November 12, 2024]


On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Jason Woodbury! After a quick chat about the connection and influence of writing about music and playing music, plus his new EP with Dad Weed, we get into unfortunate moments with the Bob Seger Band, the lifetime of influence Vince Guaraldi has had, sticking up for The Smiths, Judee Sill’s transcendent lyrics, Bill Evans replayability, Bob Dylan, Cocteau Twins, Tom Verlaine + more!


CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO FULL PODCAST


Listen to all of Jason’s picks HERE
Jason’s Website
Jason’s Substack, “Range & Basin”
JPW & Dad Weed “Two Against Nurture”
JPW “Raw Action On Route”
Transmissions Podcast

Successful collaboration between two songwriters leads to melancholy, memory and magic in three atmospheric tracks

[Repost from Add to Wantlist; by Dennis, November 7, 2024]

New EP: JPW & Dad Weed || Two Against Nurture

Phoenix-based singer-songwriters (and longtime friends) Jason P. Woodbury aka JPW and Zach Toporek aka Dad Weed have joined forces, and the synergistic effect is inviting. The three tracks on their Two Against Nurture EP embrace sunny psych pop with a dark folk edge. A two-sided tension is reflected on all levels, including in the lyrics, such as “Well everybody’s talking about moving away // You think you’ll be sticking around” (from Everybody’s Talking (Again)) and “Sun tan lotion // Wearing mirrored skin // You’ve arrived here // Just in time for the end” (from Big Wave). Musically you’ll also hear a clash of styles and preferences, resulting in a rich and surprising orchestration that sounds experimental at times, but is always captivating.

Two Against Nurture, written and produced by Jason P. Woodbury and Zach Toporek, is out digitally via Fort Lowell Records.

Add to wantlist: Bandcamp

JPW & Dad Weed - Two Against Nurture

[Repost for If It's Too Loud; by Ken Sears, November 6, 2024]

JPW & Dad Weed is the collaboration between Phoenix songwriters Zachary "Dad Weed" Toporek and Jason P. Woodbury. The duo just released a three song EP titled Two Against Nurture. The three songs comprising the EP are this glorious mix of the more mainstream side of early 90's alt-rock such as Gin Blossoms and R.E.M. alongside the more experimental sounds of Polaris and The Flaming Lips. Despite it not sounding like a complete 90's throwback, songs like "Everybody's Talking (Again)" and "When I Get Lonesome" are going to hit a nostalgia button you didn't even know you had. Plus, the songs are just a load of fun and have a sunny side that is necessary here in New England when it's getting dark at 4:30 in the afternoon. "Big Wave" closes out the EP, and goes in a completely different, more early country infused Wilco meets Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco. Two Against Nurture is made up of three perfect singles.

You can listen to Two Against Nurture below. The EP is out now via Fort Lowell Records, and is available via Bandcamp. For more on JPW & Dad Weed, check out Jason P. Woodbury's website. Dad Weed can be found on Instagram here.

JPW & Dad Weed: Two Against Nurture

[Repost by Here Comes the Flood; by Hans Werksman, October 29, 2024]

Phoenix, AZ based musicians Jason P. Woodbury and Zachary Toporek themselves JPW & Dad Weed for their debut EP Two Against Nurture. The three tracks were recorded in fits and starts over the years, but they share the same framework: free-flowing, gnarly power pop that mixes the Byrds with unhinged 90s grunge.

Never mind the stoned teenagers having a laugh name for their duo. This is very much a release for music geeks, who will have a field day dissecting all the references Woodbury and Toporek managed to sneak in.

Two Against Nurture is released via Fort Lowell Records.

Tracks:

1. Everybody's Talking (Again)
2. When I Get Lonesome
3. Big Wave

OUT NOW: JPW & Dad Weed 'Two Against Nurture' [Digital EP]

The dark is arriving earlier each passing evening. The veil between the spirit world and the land of the living grows thin. Into the glooming emerge Phoenix songwriters Zachary “Dad Weed” Toporek and Jason P. Woodbury, aka JPW, noted podcaster, liner notes author, and songwriter, bearing a bag of autumnal psych pop. Recorded in Toporek’s backyard studio between 2021-2024, these three tracks showcase the birth of a songwriting partnership between these longtime friends and collaborators. Operating like an ersatz Becker and Fagan, handling singing, writing, arranging, and production in a 50/50 split, these songs indulge their taste for ragged power pop, chiming folk rock, and even semi-improvised jams. Opener “Everybody’s Talkin’ (Again)” pairs suburban Arizona ennui with “summer of ‘99” alt-pop. Driven by Woodbury’s muted bass rumble and Zach Toporek’s exalted breakbeats, the song finds the duo abstracting and stretching out childhood memories, reflecting on the often occulted logic that drives the process of belief and self propulsion. Drawing from early Halloween memories and the spirit of magical possibility that marks the shift from summer to fall, the song’s earnest message urges living in the here and now: “Everybody’s talking about moving away/you think you’ll be sticking around.” ”When I Get Lonesome” continues the thread of ‘90s pop influence, pairing Byrds-inspired jangle pop with scuzzed-out guitars. Closing number “Big Wave” is built on a loose, mostly improvised session, which finds Toporek reflecting on climate dread while Woodbury twists a Telecaster into an open tuning and channels his inner Neil Young. Two Against Nurture opens up the vortex and beckons you to enter. Don’t delay.

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JPW & Dad Weed Two Against Nurture is now available everywhere.

LISTEN TO DIGITAL EP HERE

JPW 'Raw Action On Route'

[Repost from Foxy Digitalis; by Brad Rose]

The Capsule Garden Vol 3.19: September 25, 2024

There’s a call being broadcast from beyond the cosmos, hypnotizing our focus into the deepest reaches of space. Hazy memories snake through inner starfields like a mantra beckoning us to go back to reality. JPW’s voice crackles at the crests of slinking guitar leads, all with a wry smile buried in resonant hollows. Simple rhythms underscore the melancholy as if our hearts beat in unison across different stories in different times. Raw Action On Route sings in space-age shadows, adrift on lackadaisical waves while hanging heavy in the golden gravitational pull of future dreams.