A Few Words on...Biffy Clyro - Balance, Not Symmetry

Back in 2015, Biffy Clyro released Ellipsis, an album utterly forgettable at times and easily their worst release in a decade. Whilst commendable for experimenting with their sound of time signature changes, obtuse lyrics and complex chords, Ellipsis incorporated a more mainstream sound which, nonsurprisingly made the album far too generic.

Biffy Clyro - Ellipsis Review

When listening to Ellipsis for the first time, I felt something might be wrong the moment Friends and Enemies finished. I knew Biffy Clyro's direction into a more mainstream sound had put off people (although I loved Only Revolutions and Opposites) but this song in particular, sounded too generic and familiar, in that it was like every-other soft pop-rock song of the last thirty years.

Album Rankings for 2014

Whilst a lot of you will look at 2014 as a miserable year, mine was pretty damn special.

Album Ratings for 2013

Another year; another list of album’s I either managed to review or ones I intended to, going so far to score them but never getting there. I ran into two albums that ranked a nine (a first!) but album of the year goes to Sigur Rós with Queens of the Stone Age in a close second.

So enjoy this long list of titles and numbers and have an awesome start to 2014.

Biffy Clyro - Opposites Review

There are only a handful of good double albums, afterall, it's a hard art to master. Instead of showing the creative output that simply couldn't be contained on one disc; it can normally go on for too long. Songs that should have been relegated to B-Sides or, not released at all, are suddenly thrown in the spotlight and the record suffers for it.