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Biffy Clyro - Blackened Sky Audio CD

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Biffy Clyro Band: Biffy Clyro
Title: Blackened Sky
Rating:
Release Date: 2002-08-20
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Joy. Discovery. Invention 2: 27 3: Justboy 4: Kill the Old, Torture Their Young 5: Go-Slow 6: Christopher's River 7: Convex, Concave 8: 57 9: Hero Management 10: Solution Devices 11: Stress on the Sky 12: Scary Mary

Excellent God Damn It!
However, I don't think a review of this band should be confined to normal cliche comparrisons, as the band, and indeed this album excel to the top of my stack on a regular interval. Unbelievable! I haven't so much enjoyed a debut since Placebo. My question is - why did it take me til 2004 to discover them??!!?!

Its been a revelation in my music listening life to have Biffy Clyro's first two albums in my collection. The extroadinary riffs, vocal parts, lyrics and compassion all create a warmth and atmosphere that makes you want to invite your mates around and share. There hasn't been a dissapointed listener to those who have heard these songs.

The mechanics of the songs vary, however, the intensity and drive remains consistent - each song with its own bag of tricks and multitude of hooks that will have you rewinding frequently. The music remains complex yet accessible and although catchy many parts will seem unique well into your 50th visit. Tiresome, these albums are not!

So what makes them so different? I don't really know - I suppose its the use of legion styles of rock and indie techniques, congealed into an easily digested audio onslaught with a compulsion to stay popular without sounding common. Sometimes its the lyrics you think of, other times a riff you can't shake. Whichever it is, Biffy Clyro will not be filed in the back of any cupboard nor abandoned without comment. Blackened sky and Vertigo of Bliss should be a double album in my book, and then labelled perhaps the best rock/alternative album of the 2000s!.


Still criminally underrated,

Biffy Clyro are one of the tightest bands around and can pull off a great live show, which should really be exposed to a bigger audience, instead of the constant support slots for 'hyped' bands. Containing one of Britain's anthems of the last few years in '57' Blackened Sky is a demonstraton that this kind of music doesn't neccessarily have to sound the same as everyone else, a la takingbackfromautumntofinch.

I'd recommend this to all.


The start of things to come
Blackened Sky is a full blown alternative rock album. Biffy Clyro have to be one of britain's most underrated bands. All the songs are full of emotion and guts. Good singles have appeared from this album, such as 27,57, j. d. i and justboy.
A must buy album.


Boring and unoriginal
When I actually heard it I began to view my mates music taste with suspicion. I have been hearing hype for this band for the past year. O. K 1 star is a little cruel and vindictive, but if you are into this style of music, there are probably around one thousand other bands you may want to check out first. These are the sort of songs that a decent band would leave off an album.


{�I don�t believe in anything� is the message in your eyes}
p `Blacked Sky' being released later this year, exciting times are destined for the Glasgow based progressive rock three piece Biffy Clyro. :: Biffy Clyro - Blackened Sky ::

Being a personal favorite and with their follow up to the well received debut l.

`Blackened Sky' takes the "won't be rushed" pretentious attitudes of recent Tool and multiplies it with the minimalist but effective raw dynamics of the Deftones, before adding catchy emotive melodies with gentle lyrics and guitar lines along the way. Tracks such as opener `Joy. Discovery. Invention' [a sing along favorite live] captivate the listener by gently serenading until 1 minute 46 seconds [exactly] into the song when the song crushes your false pretenses with the defensive aggression of a cornered animal. However it is my favorite song from the album `Kill the old, torture their young" that captivate what Biffy Clyro is all about with the falsetto vocals, fantastic harmonies [all three sing live] and the subtle guitar changes that send contradicting emotions flooding through your head.

As a result is it very hard not to get caught up by this band and if their [possible career making] second album is anything near as good as the standards they have set themselves then Biffy are indeed destined big things. . .

-Andy-.


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