I never come away from an article or interview about or with Andrew W.K. that doesn’t leave me energized, inspired, and totally wanting to party hard. And this one is no exception.

“You know, all of these things I find to be hard to get it, because it’s all up to each person who listens to it, you know? And what one person might think sounds very different to them might sound similar to someone else, so again, it’s in the perspective of the person approaching it, and I would like to try and leave it as open as possible, not in terms of me detaching my perspective or my opinion on it, but at this point since it’s not even out, I would just hope that people could approach it without any expectation, without any sense of what it will be or what it should be, or what they even hope it will be. And that can be very hard, I think. I think that could ultimately be the most rewarding way to listen to this album or perhaps any music, to be aware of our own context when approaching it…When I’m making this album, I’m trying not to stand in the way personally of the album being as good as it can. I don’t want my own ideas of what it should or shouldn’t be to hold it back.”

Indeed.

So take heart, fellow hard-partiers. 2006 is shaping up to be another year of the Wolf. The third coming of the Chosen One. And, provided the new album is released by June, Ransom’s wedding will have a wildly appropriate soundtrack.