You either love Bright Eyes or you hate them. You either think Conor Oberst is his generation’s Bob Dylan or you think he’s a melodramatic, self-flagellating creep. There is no in-between.

If you fall in the former camp, you’ll be lined up at a CD store on the morning of April 10 for the official release of “Cassadega,” assuming you haven’t already pre-ordered the disc on Amazon. If you fall in the latter, you’ll have a whole new reason to go off on your well-worn “what a steaming pile of pretentious crap” rant when the CD debuts near the top of the Billboard charts.

It’s a win-win, really.

In either case, you can get a head start on your loving or loathing by downloading a track from the new disc. I haven’t heard the whole thing yet, but someone recently wrote, “If ‘I’m Wide Awake’ was ‘the New York’ album, then ‘Cassadega’ is ‘the America album.’” Let’s just hope that doesn’t mean it’s Bright Eyes’ “Rattle & Hum.”

A track by Bright Eyes, courtesy of Insound:

Bright Eyes: “Four Winds” from “Cassadega” [mp3]