Mean Everything To Nothing, the second album from Manchester Orchestra, is everything you want a rock record to be: raw, urgent, emotional, and 100 percent authentic. The blistering opener "The Only One" immediately gives way to the propulsive "Shake It Out" and the torrential first single "I've Got Friends," followed by the anguished "Pride" and the menacing "In My Teeth," before slowing down on the darkly funny "100 Dollars." Then the album pauses and downshifts into less relentless, yet equally gripping territory on songs from "I Can Feel A Hot One," to the ruminative closer "The River." The drama is magnified by the fact that the album's first six songs bleed into one another without stopping. The breakneck pace is both exhilarating and exhausting - especially in contrast to the album's darker second half. Check this out!