“What Would Wolves Do?”: Comparing Les Savy Fav (one of the greatest current rock bands alive) to Maritime (a nothing, a footnote to some great-to-middling Midwestern emo bands) or the Flaming Lips (good, but precious and over-rated) is just wrong. Les Savy Fav are their own awesome animal entirely. (Even Tim Harrington and Wayne Coyne’s respective stage antics put them at odds—Coyne’s shows are big, rehearsed, safely entertaining productions; Harrington’s are wild, improvisational, low-frills confrontations). But we can all agree, this song is the shit! Harrington tackles familiar, existential territory with his usual bluffing confidence (“The world may seem cruel/the world it may hate us/in time we will show the world why the world made us”), and it finds the band casually stretching those old post-punk muscles. It has me totally stoked for the new record, and confident that it can live up to their past work.

“The Equestrian”: Indeed a rocking song, and maybe a more exciting introduction for non-fans (especially if they come to the Fav by way of hardcore or punk), but I don’t think it’s better than “What Would Wolves Do.” Anyway, the best news about this track is the video competition the band’s having for it on the internets right now, which so far has yielded only these three not too impressive entries (although the one “performed in the key of Bunny” is kind of cute):