★★★★★
There's an ancient proverb, passed down from rock sages eternal: only Cheap Trick may thrill Budokan. The Biff soon gave said sages pause for thought. Opposites, released last year, heralded the Scottish alt-rockers evolutionary endgame. They were once an unsettled trio, metal-tinged and hopped up on Rush and rhyme. But The New Biff? The New Biff's burst into arena rock superstardom...
- www.beat.com.au
2014-03-19
★★★★★
Since the release of 2007's magnificent Puzzle, Biffy Clyro have seen their popularity slowly rise, working hard to establish themselves as one of the best live bands around. The Scottish trio's reputation was further enhanced by their stadium-reaching fifth album, Only Revolutions, which saw them finally make the deserved transition from perennial support act to headliners at Sonisphere 2011...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Remarkably unassuming ... Biffy Clyro
Biffy Clyro's new album arrives bearing all the hallmarks of A Very Important Artistic Statement...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2013-04-01
★★★★★
MUSIC ALBUM REVIEW
Biffy ClyroOpposites***½
by Ross Hamilton on March 6, 2013Jump to Comments (0) or Add Your Own
On the back of 10 years of extensive touring and two consecutive U.K. platinum albums, Biffy Clyro has managed to reach a point of near-ubiquity on the eastern side of the Atlantic...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
A couple of tracks into disc two of Opposites, the much-awaited newie from Britain's only properly massive rock band that aren't Muse, there's a song called 'Modern Magic Formula'. Its title is appropriate but also a bit optimistic - by the time you actually get that far you're so bored by Biffy Clyro's 'formula' that it's hard to pay any attention to this particular version of it. Whatever magic was here has long since drained.
Biffy Clyro (MON THE BIFF...
- drownedinsound.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Joy.Discovery.Repetition
Biffy Clyro's ascent from Scottish alternative rockers with a small faithful following to one of the 21st century's few arena bothering pop-rock bands has been a success story that few could have predicted...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
The last time Biffy Clyro released an LP - 2009's Only Revolutions - it expanded their glowing track record of top 40 appearances. With the singles chart now a Rihanna-centric guitar wasteland, the onus is on the album format to prop up a rock act. So Biffy Clyro are taking the idea and running - nay, sprinting - with it, making sixth studio album Opposites an attention-commanding two-disc behemoth...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare We Just Need To Survive Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro have been at it for awhile, for almost two decades now, yet their sound still attracts fans who are younger than the amount of years the band has been around. Their sixth studio album, Opposites, couldn't be contained on just one disc, so they've released a two-disc, 22-track set that has become their first album to top the UK Albums Charts...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-03-18
★★★★★
Now with their new album Opposites, Biffy Clyro seemed to have taken the next step despite glimpses of their past. The 2 songs that are instantly recognisable are ?Stingin Belle? and ?Black Chandalier?, which have both been released preceding the album. Stingin Belle includes the traditional Scottish bag pipes, showing how proud of their nation Biffy Clyro are! The track sounds like a victory song, with emotion, driven melodies and the occasional thrash of the guitar...
- www.music-news.com
2013-01-30
Loading...
