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One of the Most Notorious 2000s Rockers Just Returned From a Five-Year Hiatus to Drop an Experimental Jazz Album

Five years after releasing his sixth album, ‘God Is Partying’, 2000s rocker Andrew W.K. is back with something you didn’t see coming.

By Stephen Andrew Galiher

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The absolute last thing I think any of us expected from notorious 2000s rocker Andrew W.K. was an experimental jazz album. And yet, here we are.

After a five-year hiatus, the enigmatic musician has unleashed Temptation to Exist, his first record since 2021’s God Is Partying. The project finds Andrew W.K. crafting a lush instrumental soundscape of cinematic jazz.

Just as he captivated us with his unique brand of hard rock/pop-metal for more than two decades, Andrew W.K. achieves that once again. Proving genre was never relevant, because it........

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