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Wilkes-Krier found ways to stay in the public eye.

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Yet here he is with a full collection of 16 tracks, though not all are songs.

Even if you havent kept up with the specific troubles of Andrew W.K.

burst into being as a purveyor of relentless bangers.

For all his distance from the mainstream, Andrew W.K.

has always been a pop musician with a keen sense of general concerns and essential impulses.