After five years away, Andrew W.K. has returned with Temptation to Exist, which is a audacious and instrumental jazz-noir album that marks one of the most unexpected transformations in the career of an artist who has spent more than two and a half decades defying expectations. Best known around the world as the King of Partying, Andrew W.K. emerged at the beginning of the millennium as an almost impossibly energetic force in rock music.
His landmark 2001 debut, I Get Wet and its enduring anthem “Party Hard” established a musical and philosophical universe built around celebration, intensity, perseverance and the sheer exhilaration of being alive. Now, nearly 25 years after I Get Wet, Andrew W.K. opens an entirely new door with Temptation to Exist and showcases Andrew W.K. as he has never been heard before. Trading the maximalist hard rock associated with much of his career for a sprawling instrumental landscape of piano, brass, woodwinds, cello, percussion, vibraphone, organ, synthesizers, and more, the album reveals another dimension to an artist whose musicality has always extended far beyond his public persona.
Temptation To Exist Track List
- Michael’s Theme
- Nightmares
- Edge of Interior
- Between Veils
- No Clue
- Manhattan Beach
- North Hollywood
- Double Boulevard
- For Steven
- Insomnia
Photo Credit: Mauricio Alvarado
