You bring the worst out of yourself. Don’t blame others for the words your fingers type.

Nobody knows when to take you seriously because who knows if this is another pro wrestling stunt? Or if you have the bottle of Jergens out again and leaned back in yr chair moaning, “Oh, I’ll piss on their parade tonight! Yeah this will be a great way to celebrate the new album!”

It’s so hard to tell but I truly don’t care. This album is much louder than the white noise coming from your keyboard Michael_ and it really shows who you are by acting like a twit on such a special day. I was excited to spend last night commenting with my Stereogum brethren, but instead was forced to close out of the site entirely to help ignore your negativity. I don’t even know why I’m bothering to write this, but I’ve tried being cordial. I didn’t want to add to the negativity you initiated. I wanted to celebrate this album.

So that’s what I’ll do.

“she found now” is the perfect opener. After YEARS of “Isn’t Anything” and “Loveless” slaying ass right out the gate, we get a slow burning build to calm our nerves and beating hearts to ease us into this album. It’s instantly the greatest song I’ve ever heard for being so kind and gentle. But then the rest of the album happens…

“only tomorrow” and “who sees you” complement each other beautifully. As has been said below, these tracks feel like natural follow-ups to “Loveless”. Both clocking in over six minutes with the former having to fade out to end that infinite groove and the latter building to a worthy climax.

Then our first and only shift back into calmer territory with another 1-2 punch. The girl I fell in love with at the Polo Fields in 2009 returns to the microphone to “cooo” us into submission. For those that have heard the rest of the album, “is this and yes” and “if i am” are merely the calm before the storm. But it’s impressive how smoothly those two tracks float into each other.

Have we figured out if “new you” was “Rough Song” from a few days ago? That video got taken down so I can’t compare, but that was my first reaction to “new you”. Glorious transition into the back side of this album. I remember thinking that they’ll likely have another relaxing track near the end to ease us out of this already stellar album, but tracks 7-9 is an ascension to space.

I remember nearly screaming when that SCREEEECH kicks in at the beginning of “in another way”, only to unfold in one of the hardest mbv tracks I’ve ever heard… yet. That song is probably my favorite at the moment. That guitar at the end is classic hum-a-long mbv where you just mouth the guitar sound out loud to pass the time. LOVE how it ends too…

…and gives way to “nothing is” – the song that will trick many a stoner into thinking their mp3s are skipping. It will DEFINITELY convince anybody over the age of 50 that “your record is skipping”, but really that’s what is needed here in the penultimate track of this album. Vicious repetition to the point that you think this album is going to loop itself into oblivion, which it does, but not until “wonder 2″

Ooooohhhhh “wonder 2″ you fucking sunuvabitch. After all these years of mbv’s live show described as “an airplane taking off” we finally get an mbv song that sounds like yr inside a jet engine floating over the planet. It sounds like something in reverse, like the whole album is being undone and getting sucked into a giant vacuum. Then, just like the two previous tracks, it drops out and ends in mere seconds.

We’re left with nothing but slack jawed awe. And then the sounds of “she found now”. The loop continues. We have a long way to go before we outplay this album like we did “Loveless” and that’s exactly what we intend to do.

tl;dr Who the fuck is going to top this album this year?