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Manchester Orchestra are back with an upcoming record, Cope. Frontman Andy Hull says it's going to be a quick, straightforward rock album, as opposed to the glorious, passionate and sprawling mosaic that was 2011's Simple Math.

Here's the first single from the new record. This is Top Notch.

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Open your hymnals and sing along.

It's Manchester Orchestra's River.

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Sorry, kiddies -- one more day of being incommunicado, unfortunately.

Something new from Manchester Orchestra to tide you over -- a song and video that helps to cement their Simple Math record as kind of modern-day alt version of Pink Floyd's The Wall.

This is Virgin.

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If you haven't picked up the new Manchester Orchestra album yet you're seriously missing out because it's one of the best of the year.

Here's April Fool performed live in studio in L.A.

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This is what I've been waiting for all year -- without a doubt my favorite song of 2011 so far and a powerful and evocative video, reminiscent of the criminally underappreciated 2005 film Stay.

Here's the title track from Manchester Orchestra's upcoming album, Simple Math.

Also, below, a fan video that I seem to keep going back to again and again -- one that puts images from Stay to a song from Keane that's also become a favorite of mine over the past few years.

This is A Bad Dream.

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Bad Books = Kevin Devine + Manchester Orchestra = Win

Here's You Wouldn't Have To Ask.