As I recall Biffy Clyro showed up in the "best bands" poll a while back and I remember thinking "who the fuck are these guys?" having never heard of them. I also recall listening to 4 or 5 tunes and feeling they had something to offer but also something that could be made fun of mercilessly. As such, I will look forward to this but suspect my review will likely skew to one side of the bell curve or another. Am I right that they have nearly no following in the USA?
Wikipedia suggests the following: The band cite influences ranging from heavy metal bands such as Metallica to progressive rock band Rush, while reviewers are often quick to link their sound to Nirvana and Foo Fighters – particularly in their use of shifting dynamics, which they adapted from Pixies and Fugazi.
Well, given how much I love Rush, Nirvana, the Foos, Pixies and was around during the pre-birth of Fugazi in DC (I loved Minor Threat, and Guy Piccioto was a college classmate of mine, also an English major with me and good friends with one of my roommates, though not me, when he was in Happy Go Licky and Rites of Spring), this could very well appeal!
As I recall Biffy Clyro showed up in the "best bands" poll a while back and I remember thinking "who the fuck are these guys?" having never heard of them. I also recall listening to 4 or 5 tunes and feeling they had something to offer but also something that could be made fun of mercilessly. As such, I will look forward to this but suspect my review will likely skew to one side of the bell curve or another. Am I right that they have nearly no following in the USA?
Wikipedia suggests the following: The band cite influences ranging from heavy metal bands such as Metallica to progressive rock band Rush, while reviewers are often quick to link their sound to Nirvana and Foo Fighters – particularly in their use of shifting dynamics, which they adapted from Pixies and Fugazi.
Well, given how much I love Rush, Nirvana, the Foos, Pixies and was around during the pre-birth of Fugazi in DC (I liked Minor Threat, and Guy Picciotto was a college classmate of mine, also an English major with me and good friends with one of my roommates, though not me, when he was in Happy Go Licky and Rites of Spring), this could very well appeal!
Pretty big in the UK - I’ve listened to a lot of their stuff, never heard any heavy metal influence - perhaps I will in this album.
Always been standard indie/Pop, Radio X stuff - which I like.
‘Ellipses’ I bought - good stuff on there.
‘Many of Horror’ (not on this album) is a massive song world wide (I think) you should know that one
I would agree, any 'metal' association is for me more an image thing than a sound. Prog-rock certainly there though, and Rush (having listened to the album nominated on this thread) has been I would say an influence. As has grunge, where they started.
You are right -- I do know this one -- I always thought it was called "Hit Me Hard" and I'd no idea who did it.‘Many of Horror’ (not on this album) is a massive song world wide (I think) you should know that one
You are right -- I do know this one -- I always thought it was called "Hit Me Hard" and I'd no idea who did it.
I do like "Bubbles".