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Close Calls With Brick Walls
Rock · 2006 · 18 tracks

Close Calls With Brick Walls

Andrew W.K.

A maximalist collision of power-pop hooks, baroque piano arrangements, and surrealist hard rock. High-energy anthems that feel both triumphant and deeply strange.

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It's like a Broadway musical and a heavy metal show had a baby in a room full of pianos.

A relentless, technicolor surge of existential joy and surrealist energy.

Close Calls With Brick Walls · vs · Andrew W.K.
Vocal Layering+4.0σ

The vocals lean far further into vocal layering than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 18 Tracks
01
I Came for You
2:16
02
Close Calls With Bal Harbour
1:22
03
Not Going to Bed
2:57
04
You Will Remember Tonight
4:06
05
Pushing Drugs
2:41
06
Hand on the Place
3:20
07
One Brother
2:25
08
Las Vegas, Nevada
3:00
09
Dr. Dumont
1:06
10
I Want to See You Go Wild
3:00
11
When I’m High
3:16
12
Golden Eyed Dog
0:28
13
Into the Clear
1:33
14
Mark My Grace
3:11
15
Don’t Call Me Andy
2:45
16
The Background
2:55
17
Slam John Against a Brick Wall
3:53
18
The Moving Room
3:37
Moments Worth Waiting For
The sudden shift from the percussive piano assault to the soaring, multi-tracked vocal harmonies in track 4.
The way the instrumental interludes like 'Dr. Dumont' act as brief, psychedelic palate cleansers between the high-octane rock tracks.
The final minute of 'The Moving Room' where the driving rhythm dissolves into a lush, synth-heavy dreamscape.
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