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Track List
01) Intro
02) Living Is a Problem Because Everything Dies
03) Saturday Superhouse
04) Who's Got a Match?
05) As Dust Dances / 2/15ths
06) A Whole Child Ago
07) The Conversation Is...
08) Now I'm Everyone
09) Semi-Mental / 4/15ths
10) Love Has a Diameter
11) Get Fucked Stud
12) Folding Stars
13) 9/15ths
14) Machines
01) Intro
02) Living Is a Problem Because Everything Dies
03) Saturday Superhouse
04) Who's Got a Match?
05) As Dust Dances / 2/15ths
06) A Whole Child Ago
07) The Conversation Is...
08) Now I'm Everyone
09) Semi-Mental / 4/15ths
10) Love Has a Diameter
11) Get Fucked Stud
12) Folding Stars
13) 9/15ths
14) Machines
1:25
3:53
3:19
2:23
5:37
3:08
3:41
3:51
4:07
3:54
3:37
4:15
2:46
3:56
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First Released
2007
Rock
Energetic
Rock/Pop
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Album
300,000 copies
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Puzzle is the fourth studio album by Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro, released 4 June 2007 - the album was later released in America in August. It is the band's first album since leaving Beggars Banquet (though the sleeve artwork still features the Beggars Banquet logo).
The album reached #2 in the UK Albums Chart to widespread critical acclaim, receiving several perfect ratings and was voted the best album of 2007 by Kerrang! and Rock Sound. The album also reached #17 in Ireland, and #39 in the overall world charts. The album is certified Platinum in the UK, having sold over 300,000 copies. It has as of February 2009, sold over 300,000 worldwide.
This album is notable for having somewhat more straightforward song structures and a more melodic overall sound than their previous work, while still retaining some more unusual elements. The album was recorded from September to November 2006 at The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, Canada, and The Farm Studio in Gibsons, British Columbia. It was produced by Garth Richardson, engineered by Mike Fraser, mixed by Andy Wallace in New York, and mastered by Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk. The band said that they had 40 tracks to choose from, and that they had been recording with composer Graeme Revell and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra whilst making the album. The artwork for Puzzle and its subsequent singles was designed by Storm Thorgerson. It is possible that the artwork is a reference to the song Glitter and Trauma, which includes the line "your skin will break into jigsaw shaped pieces of meat."
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Biffy Clyro’s fourth album is an ambitious modern rock record with plenty of variety and surprising twists.
Tracks like “Saturday Superhouse” race along efficiently enough. But it feels like the band are more comfortable with more melodic, lyrical moods than angst ridden post-Nirvana rock. The current single “Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies” and “9/15ths” feature tinny gothic choirs and Psycho-style strings, but I’m not convinced anything really nasty is going to happen.
Much better is the more subtle, rumbling, melodic pleasure of “As Dust Dances” which is pretty gorgeous and ends with the first of two lovely piano interludes. Biffy Clyro’s heart lies in big, lyrical, sincere, stirring music. On the metal map they’re closer to U2 than Metallica.
The range of ideas is impressive. Prog fans will enjoy the end of “Now I’m Everyone” where the tricky time signature and lush harmonies end up sounding like Yes. “Who’s Got A Match” is a sing along stomper, and beefy riffs abound on “Semi-Mental” and “Get F****d Stud”.
The puzzle is whether this record is too tasteful to live up to their world beating ambitions. The over clean production filters out dirt or sweat so it sometimes feels hard to get involved.
The stand out track “Folding Stars” breaks through that barrier and is really thrilling. Hundreds of years ago, a man sang a song to a woman he couldn’t have or couldn’t hold. All men have been singing that song ever since, at one time or another, and “Folding Stars” is that song. If all of Puzzle was as good as this, Biffy Clyro would be not be taking on the world, they’d have conquered it.
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Puzzle is the fourth studio album by Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro, released 4 June 2007 - the album was later released in America in August. It is the band's first album since leaving Beggars Banquet (though the sleeve artwork still features the Beggars Banquet logo).
The album reached #2 in the UK Albums Chart to widespread critical acclaim, receiving several perfect ratings and was voted the best album of 2007 by Kerrang! and Rock Sound. The album also reached #17 in Ireland, and #39 in the overall world charts. The album is certified Platinum in the UK, having sold over 300,000 copies. It has as of February 2009, sold over 300,000 worldwide.
This album is notable for having somewhat more straightforward song structures and a more melodic overall sound than their previous work, while still retaining some more unusual elements. The album was recorded from September to November 2006 at The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, Canada, and The Farm Studio in Gibsons, British Columbia. It was produced by Garth Richardson, engineered by Mike Fraser, mixed by Andy Wallace in New York, and mastered by Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk. The band said that they had 40 tracks to choose from, and that they had been recording with composer Graeme Revell and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra whilst making the album. The artwork for Puzzle and its subsequent singles was designed by Storm Thorgerson. It is possible that the artwork is a reference to the song Glitter and Trauma, which includes the line "your skin will break into jigsaw shaped pieces of meat."
User Album Review
Biffy Clyro’s fourth album is an ambitious modern rock record with plenty of variety and surprising twists.
Tracks like “Saturday Superhouse” race along efficiently enough. But it feels like the band are more comfortable with more melodic, lyrical moods than angst ridden post-Nirvana rock. The current single “Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies” and “9/15ths” feature tinny gothic choirs and Psycho-style strings, but I’m not convinced anything really nasty is going to happen.
Much better is the more subtle, rumbling, melodic pleasure of “As Dust Dances” which is pretty gorgeous and ends with the first of two lovely piano interludes. Biffy Clyro’s heart lies in big, lyrical, sincere, stirring music. On the metal map they’re closer to U2 than Metallica.
The range of ideas is impressive. Prog fans will enjoy the end of “Now I’m Everyone” where the tricky time signature and lush harmonies end up sounding like Yes. “Who’s Got A Match” is a sing along stomper, and beefy riffs abound on “Semi-Mental” and “Get F****d Stud”.
The puzzle is whether this record is too tasteful to live up to their world beating ambitions. The over clean production filters out dirt or sweat so it sometimes feels hard to get involved.
The stand out track “Folding Stars” breaks through that barrier and is really thrilling. Hundreds of years ago, a man sang a song to a woman he couldn’t have or couldn’t hold. All men have been singing that song ever since, at one time or another, and “Folding Stars” is that song. If all of Puzzle was as good as this, Biffy Clyro would be not be taking on the world, they’d have conquered it.
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