Close Calls with Brick Walls is the third studio album by American musician Andrew W.K.

On August 18, 2007, it was given a limited release in America only on vinyl on Load Records with 5 exclusive bonus tracks, but only became widely available on CD to the rest of the world in March 2010, bundled with a second disc containing a collection of rare and unreleased songs entitled Mother of Mankind.

acknowledged legal disputes around his name: "At the end of 2004, an old friend of mine got in some business trouble and basically decided to take it out on me.

To cut a long story short, this person is someone I worked very closely with and had a formal and family business relationship with.

This made my life complicated and intense for a few years, but I kept working and doing whatever I could to keep moving forward.