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.
