OPPOSITES
Biffy Clyro
(Warner)
After five previous full-lengthers, these Scots rockers have hit a pinnacle of sorts with this grandiose, swaggering album stacked full of stadium-sized anthemic belters, primetime alt-rock and heartstring tugging ballads.
For the legion of fans this sixth oversized album (they originally intended two albums catchily titled The Land and the End of Our Toes and The Sand at the Core of Our Bones to detail positivity and negativity) is the antidote to the ignominy of having one of their tracks reach the UK Christmas No1 thanks to being covered by an X-Factor winner … now they’ve got a critically acclaimed winner all of their own.
The overly manipulated production (bagpipes, fercrissakes!) does tend to undercut the band’s hard rock pretentions but there’s no mistaking the polish.
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