Andrew WK "Not Going to Bed"

"Are you ready to go to sleep?" "NO!!! Party!!!!" And, thus, we do. Andrew WK is back, with what might be his greatest album yet of keyboard-driven, hyper-masculine yet still for some reason polite explodo-rock, Close Calls with Brick Walls. And, so far, the best song of all is "Not Going to Bed" (mp3), which is easily the greatest anthem to voluntary insomnia since Talking Heads' "Stay Up Late." Don't expect much in the way of change here, it's still the same sweaty, punch-me-in-the-stomach 'cause it feels good dude-music that should, and probably does, appeal to chicks as well. He's Glenn Danzig after a case of Sparks, and thus the only one in his league, or in his sport, and he makes sure here that you're completely OK with that fact. There's no need for competition. Competition would get punched in the stomach.

Unfortunately for Americans, though, albums with this amount of unrestrained ebullience, like last year's magnificent Hey Hey My My Yo Yo from Junior Senior, seem to have trouble finding and keeping stateside representation (thanks, Mercury). Thus, Close Calls, for now, is only available as a Japanese import (see the picture that you already see). They get it, apparently. Order as an import from Amazon here, I guess.

And, oh snap. Here's the video I just found for it, which features the lateral leg-kicking thing that only he can pull off, in the tight white jeans that only he can pull off: