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Biffy Clyro - Puzzle Audio CD

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Biffy Clyro Band: Biffy Clyro
Title: Puzzle
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Release Date: 2007-10-22
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Intro 2: Living Is a Problem Because Everything Dies 3: Saturday Superhouse 4: Who's Got a Match? 5: As Dust Dances 6: Whole Child Ago 7: Conversation Is... 8: Now I'm Everyone 9: Semi-Mental 10: Love Has a Diameter 11: Get Fucked Stud 12: Folding Stars 13: 9/15ths 14: Machines 15: I'm Behind You 16: Coward

A must- have!
So I bought this latest album. I saw the "Mountains" video on tv and liked it very much. From the first notes on, I thought, this is a special band. And the album turned out to be great. Really love it ! And it never left the cdplayer since. This is the best album of 2007. . . . . and maybe 2008 ?
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Brilliant album.
I got the album, and fell in love. I'm usually not one to try something out just because the critics liked it, but when I heard the praise this album was getting, my interest was peaked. As a seasoned music lover, I wondered how I had never looked into this underrated band.

I listened to the album over and over, never growing tired of it, and each time I was struck by its quality. It was very melodic, with a keen sense of harmony as well, the lyrics were interesting, and each of the band's members had impressive skill on their respective instruments. Each song was distinct and well-written, and everytime I listened to the album, I was left stunned.

I've listened to most of the band's other material since then, and there's some great stuff - truly a fantastic band - but still, this album moves me every time, and I still think it's their best-written, musically speaking.

I know some Biffy Clyro fans are miffed because it's been successful (as if that's a bad thing), or because it's attracted new fans (again, is that a bad thing?), or because it they think it sounds more mainstream (which can be contested). Of course, one of the other reviews even complained that critics liked it too much. These fans need to lighten up and look at the big picture. All good bands progress and go into new territory from time to time, and that's what Biffy Clyro's doing, and, if you ask me, they're going into exciting new directions.


...mon the biffy? No no no this is all wrong...
. . I have been a huge biffy clyro fan for a while. . . Infinity Land is one of my favorite albums being both experimental and never at a point where I could wrap one genre around it. . . it took a while for a new album to come out (especially after the tragic death of the lead singer's mother) but there really is no excuse for this. . .

. . . the first track "Living is a problem because everyone dies" is a very good song with the use of violins and children's singing (in a ghostly way) to create an amazingly good song. . . unfortunately that's where the downhill slope becomes literally vertical. . .

. . . songs like "Who's got a match" and "Folding stars" are poppy even for Biffy's standards. . . I could cope with "Questions and Answers" and "My Recovery Injection" because the rest of the album made up for it and they weren't that awful. . . they're probably in the same category as "Saturday Superhouse" on this album. . .

. . . what bothers me even more is they are getting huge praise and even radio play from daytime radio which is pretty much saying to them like a tellytubby "again again again!!". . .

. . . ok to conclude this album is nothing compared to their older albums and if you honestly believe that it is then I guess you are a better Biffy fan then me. . . download the one good song and hope that they will go back to their old ways. . . or something new and fresh. . . just evolve into something interesting. . . so until that happens this will be my last Mon the Biff.


One of the best bands around today
I figured with a name like that and the fact that Queens has them opening for them, they have to be at least different. I am a sort of a new fan of Biffy Clyro, I first heard of them when they were opening up for Queens of the Stone Age. I like music that is different but yet is hard hitting and melodic. That is exactly what they are.

Their fourth effort since the mid 90's I feel that "Puzzle" is their most grown up and realized album. The experimentation is still there and the hard hitting tracks are there as well. Although it is not as heavey as previous albums there is almost, if not any, screaming at all. The melodies and the instrumentation make up for it. After listening to it a few times I think that this is definitley of my favorite albums of all time.

An orginal and very talented band I would recommend "Puzzle" or any one of their three other albums to anyone.


Great!
Interesting album, I've listened to it 5 times in a row when I got it and still not sick of it. Biffy Clyro absolutley know what they are doing when they write music. Highly recomanded!.


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