Music often draws powerful emotions from both the musicians and the listeners. In the case of Manchester Orchestra, take the usual amount of emotion on a scale of one to 10 and turn it up to 11.

The Atlanta-based band’s latest album, “Mean Everything To Nothing,” is a surprisingly refreshing, powerful blast of every emotion in the book, and it will leave listeners searching every record store in sight for the rest of the band’s work.

The band is a typical five-piece group, but it produces music that sounds as if it has a real orchestra playing along. The opening line of the album is a simple sample of the deep thought the rest of it contains: “I am the only one that thinks I’m going crazy, and I don’t know what to do.”

The band starts out hard with the opening tracks, but the album goes through waves of feelings expressed through high-energy guitar and one of the most expressive singers of the genre.

Even with the expressive and hard-hitting rock sound, lyricist Andy Hull finds ways to make listeners think with beautifully written verses about topics that vary from questioning religion, alcohol abuse, unrequited love, depression and the simple meaning of life. The intricate manner in which these are presented also provides replay value.

Not only is the music more than good enough to put on repeat, but every time listeners hear it, there’s a new meaning or new phrase that wasn’t caught the last time. The same can be said about the talent the band displays.

There are often parts where the bass, guitars and keyboard are all playing different overlapping harmonies reminiscent of bands like RX Bandits, Queens of the Stone Age and Silversun Pickups. Manchester Orchestra brings it to a whole new level though, as the range of emotions matches their range of style.

This is not an album that contains one song played 11 times (I’m looking at you, Sum 41….) as the group’s music ranges from hard rock to softer acoustic, even drawing part of the track “Everything To Nothing” from the waltz style.

The album has something for everyone, and is an instant classic. Alternative Press rates it 5/5 stars; IGN, 9/10; Kerrang! 4/5 stars; and AbsolutePunk, 93 percent. This record even earned the top spot on the Watch The Tapes blog’s Best Albums of 2009 list.

No matter what type of music listeners prefer, they are sure to enjoy Manchester Orchestra’s sophomore album “Mean Everything To Nothing.”