Music just hits different when you've been cooped up in your apartment for nearly two weeks straight.

When Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder wrote and recorded "Gigaton," the Seattle rock band's 11th album and first since 2013's "Lightning Bolt," he never could've predicted it would come into the world during a global pandemic.

But with its thrashing guitars, pummeling drums and anxiety-riddled lyrics, "Gigaton" (out Friday) is the sort of primal scream we could all use right now as many of us are sequestered at home filled with fear and frustration about our government's response to the outbreak.

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An outspoken critic of President Donald Trump (at times, controversially so), Vedder calls out the president directly in two songs: In the bruising "Quick Escape," he imagines trekking halfway across the world just "to find a place Trump hadn't f***ed up yet" and gets wistful about the past.

"And we think about the old days Of green grass, sky and red wine, Should've known, so fragile And avoided this one-way flight."

He elaborates further on the rousing "Seven O'Clock," which evokes Native American leaders Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.

"Then there's Sitting Bull*** as our sitting president Talking to his mirror, what's he say? What's it say back? A tragedy of errors, who'll be last to have a laugh?"

Aside from its sharply political message, "Seven O'Clock" also captures the powerlessness many of us feel to help the doctors, nurses and grocery store clerks who are fighting on the front lines of the pandemic, but with an ultimately hopeful message to leave your despondency "in the bed" because there's "much to be done."

"For this is no time for depression or self-indulgent hesitance This f***ed-up situation calls for all hands, all hands on deck."

For those of us who are fortunate enough to self-quarantine inside and work from home, Vedder reminds us that it's natural to feel overwhelmed by the state of the world and important to take the space you need for yourself. On the spacey, slowed-down "Alright," he sings about turning off and tuning out.

"It's alright, to shut it down Disappear in thin air, it's your home I's alright, to be alone."

Not giving up is a running theme throughout the album's 12 songs, whether it's regarding a rocky relationship ("Take the Long Way") or railing against a "government (that) thrives on discontent" ("River Cross"). That defiant spirit and resilience has long been a trademark of Pearl Jam's music but feels all the more reassuring in these uncertain times.