Eldridge Rodriguez’s newest album You Are Released is a marked change from his earlier releases. Instead of the heavy, morose chords that flooded his prior releases (particularly This Conspiracy Against Us), the new album comes out with a heavy borrowings from alt-country acts like Wilco and more traditional rock acts like Modest Mouse or Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

You Are Released is a stunning album. Opening track, “The Big Windup,” is a raucous lead that set the tone for the whole album. The real gem on the album is “Miss Me When I’m Gone,” which is performed as a duet with alt-country starlet Sarah Borges. “Miss Me” is filled with male-female vocal interplay along the lines of the best country duets.

Overall, You Are Released is a power-packed album of floor-stomping rockers with stellar lyrics. Everything that made Rodriguez’s previous albums great sticks with You Are Released, which brings in new sounds to the repertoire.

(Midriff Records, 3 Adamson St., Boston, MA 02134)