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Biffy Clyro are a Scottish rock group from Ayrshire whose members are Simon Neil (lead vocals, guitar), James Johnston (vocals, bass guitar) and Ben Johnston (vocals, drums). Although the band have always had a dedicated following and have been around since the mid-1990s.<br />
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No one could ever accuse Biffy Clyro of lacking in ambition. Puzzle, the fourth album from this grungey Kilmarnock power-trio, not only builds heavily on the band's more - whisper it - progressive influences, they've even enlisted a genuine Hollywood composer, Graeme Revell, who adds symphonic strings and choir to "9/15ths" and the opening "Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies". At there most out-there, Biffy hint at the complex prog arrangements of The Mars Volta or their '70s predecessors, Rush. That's not to say this is a record that will bewilder the more casual rock fan, though. Puzzlemore…'s more difficult moments are neatly counterbalanced with storming, yet straightforward post-hardcore rockers like "The Conversation Is..." and "Semi-Mental" -- not to mention moments of raw, heart-on-sleeve emotion: see "Folding Stars", a raw song about the death of Biffy vocalist Simon Neil's mother. There's moments where the outsider won't be able to totally shake the feeling Biffy are a neat conglomeration of rock influences (Foo Fighters, Fugazi, At The Drive-In) rather than an innovative band in their own right, but for their fanatical fanbase, Puzzle will be greeted as the band's most evolved, ambitious album to date.<br />
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Tracks<br />
Title<br />
1 Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies<br />
2 Saturday Superhouse<br />
3 Who's Got A Match<br />
4 As Dust Dances/Two Fifteenths<br />
5 Whole Child Ago<br />
6 Conversation Is<br />
7 Now I'm Everyone<br />
8 Semi Mental/Four Fifteenths<br />
9 Love Has A Diameter<br />
10 Get Fucked Stud<br />
11 Folding Stars<br />
12 Nine Fifteenths<br />
13 Machines<br />
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