Andrew W.K.'s "Close Calls with Brick Walls" To See Worldwide Release as Double CD

After three years, ANDREW W.K. fans can finally experience the "lost" third album from the party rocker. Previously released in Japan and Korea in 2006, "Close Calls with Brick Walls" will officially become available in the United States on March 23rd, 2010, being released by STEEV MIKE, as a special two album package (the original "Close Calls with Brick Walls" on one disc, and an additional CD called "Mother of Mankind," containing rare and unreleased material).

"Close Calls with Brick Walls" was recorded in multiple sessions throughout 2004 and 2005, using the full Andrew W.K. touring band for the first time. With a full instrumental band, the new album includes exciting new performances, styles, and rhythms. The lyrics are more complex although still very playful, and Andrew’s voice has grown into something much more distinct and expressive.

Since the initial 2006 release of "Close Calls with Brick Walls," Andrew’s career has moved in all sorts of surprising directions. He did a lot of things that were unexpected, yet offered little in the way of explanation for behavior that, on one level, seemed quite natural and, on another, entirely unnatural. Instead of promoting and touring the album in the U.S., he went on a lecture tour as an inspirational new-age motivational speaker. He cut his hair. It grew back. He stepped out of his dirty whites and into a tailored suit to model for gentleman’s magazines like Esquire and V-Man, he produced a Grammy-nominated album for reggae artist, Lee "Scratch" Perry, opened a night club in New York (Santos Party House) and became the host of the Cartoon Network game show, Destroy Build Destroy. He recorded a solo piano album and went on tour with a classical string quartet.