![]() ![]() the performer, he talks of how they both cyclically feed into the “mission”. When we ask how much of him as a person is in the record, and how much of it is Andrew W.K. He’s written extensive columns, essays, letters and tweets about what that actually means, going beyond the conventional meaning of getting drunk with mates and cutting right to the heart of living a meaningful life. The album fits with his much-publicised commitment to Party Hard. The album is so laboured over, and the layers of music bolster me and make me feel bigger and stronger and more powerful than I am when it’s just me talking – not even singing – alone, where you have the power of melody to infuse your voice with beauty. “Because that was the most exposed thing. “I recorded those almost sort of spontaneously, and had a very hard time listening to them afterwards,” he admits. The vocals are multitracked – he’s previously commented that he wants listeners to feel as though his music bears an everyman voice, not an individual one – and the flow is disrupted by three short motivational speeches. ![]() The lyrics acknowledge the hardship of the human experience, but advocate pushing through. A bombastic, euphoric, fist-in-the-air set of major-key songs with guitars and piano at the heart, it plays out like a soundtrack to the most uplifting musical you’ve never heard. It is, he says, the record he’s been trying to make since 2005. New album You’re Not Alone is the result of listening to that voice. than partying (Image credit: Jeremy Saffer) Where all of the dread that surrounded a lot of my activities or decisions has been removed.” A kind of quiet, subdued, maybe even melancholy joy, that I’ve never felt before. And since I’ve been listening to it, I’ve definitely felt a level of… I guess joy. “Now, for the first time, I’m trying to listen to a voice inside that has always been there, but I never had the courage to listen to 100%. “That’s the real question – that’s where it can get very distressing, because you think, ‘Well, maybe I’m doing the exact opposite of what I’m supposed to be doing.’ Whether they’re higher, or maybe it’s a lower power,” he says, brow furrowing and staring hard into the middle distance. Again, this idea, this not knowing, bothers him. It’s something that’s bigger than him, whether it’s another person or a group of people, or some vague “other forces”. He believes in a higher power, though not necessarily the ‘Party Gods’ he flippantly refers to elsewhere in our conversation. Which is a very strange feeling – to think that your own life or work isn’t your concern. So it almost seemed like it wasn’t my concern. And if I thought of all the other avenues I could have taken, it almost seemed disrespectful to all the good things that had happened. ‘Are they setting goals? Are they being more cutthroat?’ I couldn’t deny that what I’d gotten to do brought me to where I was now, and I had to assume it was all for the best. I was looking around at other people that seemed very successful. “I thought maybe I was being really irresponsible. “It was at times very confusing and distressing,” he sighs in frustration. Now he’s poised to release his first true rock album since Close Calls With Brick Walls – 12 years ago. Yet his career expanded into new realms: he co-founded New York club Santos Party House (though it’s since closed), hosted the children’s gameshow Destroy Build Destroy, DJ’d on Black Sabbath’s 2013 tour and became a motivational speaker, even giving a talk at the Oxford Union. To others, he was a joke figure who was ruining heavy music. To some, he was the crusading idealist we needed, creating anthems that encouraged people to let go. ![]() What follows is an exceptionally intense couple of hours – unexpectedly so for an encounter with the self-described King Of Partying.īursting onto our screens in 2001 with his riotous video for Party Hard, Andrew W.K. He declines again he prefers to sit opposite interviewers. We ask if he wants to sit on the high chairs in front of the flashbulb-studded vanity mirror. He reaches out his hand and politely greets us, before making himself comfortable on an old chest in a quiet corner of this chilly photo studio a couple of hours outside Chicago. ^ "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40".– 'God Is Partying' review: his dedication to the cause remains undimmed". "Andrew W.K.'s 'God Is Partying' Features Very Little Partying (but Some God)". takes us to a different kind of rager in God Is Partying". ^ Tenreyro, Tatiana (September 8, 2021)."God Is Partying – Andrew W.K." AllMusic. Announces New Album 'God Is Partying,' Confirms He's Dating Kat Dennings". "Andrew W.K announces new album 'God Is Partying' and shares intense single 'I'm In Heaven' ". Announces New Album God Is Partying, Shares New Song "I'm in Heaven" ". ![]()
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