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• Artist: Biffy Clyro
• Album: Only Revolutions
• Label: 14th Floor Records
• Year of Release: 2009
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• Reviewed by: Dennis Scanland on 2010-02-05
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It's hard to believe that this is the same band I reviewed back in 2002. I can just barely recall Biffy Clyro's grunge efforts but I did mention that I thought the young band had promise. Only Revolutions delivers on that promise. Infinity Land was the last album I managed to listen to from the Scottish rock band but when I started seeing Only Revolutions showing up on a few year end lists I eagerly downloaded it.

It starts off very ambitious with "The Captain", a skyrocketing rock track but then they even put this one to shame with the almost perfect "The Golden Rule". It's the strings close to the end that drive this one home for me. "Bubbles" is an unassuming song title but it doesn't embrace what this song has to offer. Then Biffy Clyro slow it down for "God & Satan" a fun song that gets you thinking about both sides.

Songs like "Born On A Horse" and the soaring "Mountains" ("I am a mountain, I am the sea, you can't take that away from me") are literally screaming for radio play. In fact if songs like this were rampant on radio I might actually listen to radio!

My prediction, Only Revolutions will be a sleeper hit for Biffy Clyro. A lot of people will have heard of the band and will take a little exposure to this music to get them turned on again. And for people that have never heard of the Scottish act, they should be an easy sell

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on 2009-12-04 dscanland Said:

I really couldn't resist checking out Biffy Clyro's latest album Only Revolutions after seeing on SO many year end lists. Damn, is this one fine album. Not at all like the band I remember from back in the Infinity Land days, the last time I heard anything from the band. Check it out. I'm working on a proper review.
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