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Track List
01) The Captain
02) That Golden Rule
03) Bubbles
04) God & Satan
05) Born on a Horse
06) Mountains
07) Shock Shock
08) Many of Horror (When We Collide)
09) Booooom, Blast and Ruin
10) Cloud of Stink
11) Know Your Quarry
12) Whorses
13) Sky Demon
01) The Captain
02) That Golden Rule
03) Bubbles
04) God & Satan
05) Born on a Horse
06) Mountains
07) Shock Shock
08) Many of Horror (When We Collide)
09) Booooom, Blast and Ruin
10) Cloud of Stink
11) Know Your Quarry
12) Whorses
13) Sky Demon
3:45
3:52
5:03
3:12
2:51
3:23
3:06
4:21
3:19
2:58
3:31
3:58
3:28
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First Released
2009
Rock
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Album
377,900 copies
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Only Revolutions is the fifth studio album by Scottish alternative rock band Biffy Clyro, released 9 November 2009 on 14th Floor Records. As with its predecessor, Puzzle, the album was produced by Garth Richardson. Upon release, Only Revolutions was a critical and commercial success. The album entered at #8 on the UK Album Chart and was then certified gold by the BPI shortly afterwards. It was certified platinum by the BPI in June 2010 for shipments of 300,000 copies in the UK, making it the band's largest selling album. In September 2010, the album achieved a new peak position of #3. It was the 26th biggest selling album of 2010 in the UK with sales of 377,900. It was nominated for the 2010 Mercury Prize, which is awarded annually for the best album in the UK or Ireland, and Rock Sound declared it third in its list of the 75 best albums of 2009.
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For the past year, Biffy Clyro have been playing gigs all around the world. You can almost imagine hirsute frontman Simon Neil handing out business cards to people he meets at airports: ‘No Show Too Small’. Of course, this is just a sign of the way the modern music industry works: gigs can rake in the cash for bands, while record sales often don't.
These days you need to shift some serious units to reap financial rewards from actually putting an album onto store shelves. But despite this fact, the industry equivalent of walking through a tunnel and seeing the lights of a train thundering towards you, bands are still doing what they've always done. Things may change in the future, but for now old habits die hard.
So here we have Biffy Clyro’s fifth album: not much of a departure from what came immediately before it, 2007’s major label debut Puzzle. And here's another thing about the modern music industry: with an established band like Biffy, who have a hardcore of fans around the world, exactly what critics have to say about their wares matters not a jot. However this review reads, and whatever its conclusions, people will buy into their enjoyable-enough angst rock anyway. They’ve reached that level of success, where fans will, effectively, buy blind.
While it is a fair comment that there's not much progression from their last album evident on Only Revolutions, there are pronounced developments from what the Scottish trio were delivering in their Beggars Banquet days, when they were very much the thinking man's visceral rock band. On 2002's Blackened Sky, the band’s debut, there were some genuinely heart-wrenching rock moments; now it's all rather polished, and it’s been this way for quite some time.
But at least they’ve never gone folk, in the vein of those other great Scot-rock hopes, Idlewild. And there are some satisfyingly coruscating moments here, most notably Shock Shock and Bubbles. There are some chart-bothering, Muse-lite moments too, such as the pomp-drenched sing-along single The Captain. Essentially, this is an entirely natural evolution for Biffy: the quirks remain, but the hooks have been sharpened and the gloss grows ever thicker.
They’re likeable as ever then, albeit for reasons fairly removed from their first rumblings. But Only Revolutions isn't quite an essential album of 2009, however great a draw the band has become in the live field.
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Only Revolutions is the fifth studio album by Scottish alternative rock band Biffy Clyro, released 9 November 2009 on 14th Floor Records. As with its predecessor, Puzzle, the album was produced by Garth Richardson. Upon release, Only Revolutions was a critical and commercial success. The album entered at #8 on the UK Album Chart and was then certified gold by the BPI shortly afterwards. It was certified platinum by the BPI in June 2010 for shipments of 300,000 copies in the UK, making it the band's largest selling album. In September 2010, the album achieved a new peak position of #3. It was the 26th biggest selling album of 2010 in the UK with sales of 377,900. It was nominated for the 2010 Mercury Prize, which is awarded annually for the best album in the UK or Ireland, and Rock Sound declared it third in its list of the 75 best albums of 2009.
User Album Review
For the past year, Biffy Clyro have been playing gigs all around the world. You can almost imagine hirsute frontman Simon Neil handing out business cards to people he meets at airports: ‘No Show Too Small’. Of course, this is just a sign of the way the modern music industry works: gigs can rake in the cash for bands, while record sales often don't.
These days you need to shift some serious units to reap financial rewards from actually putting an album onto store shelves. But despite this fact, the industry equivalent of walking through a tunnel and seeing the lights of a train thundering towards you, bands are still doing what they've always done. Things may change in the future, but for now old habits die hard.
So here we have Biffy Clyro’s fifth album: not much of a departure from what came immediately before it, 2007’s major label debut Puzzle. And here's another thing about the modern music industry: with an established band like Biffy, who have a hardcore of fans around the world, exactly what critics have to say about their wares matters not a jot. However this review reads, and whatever its conclusions, people will buy into their enjoyable-enough angst rock anyway. They’ve reached that level of success, where fans will, effectively, buy blind.
While it is a fair comment that there's not much progression from their last album evident on Only Revolutions, there are pronounced developments from what the Scottish trio were delivering in their Beggars Banquet days, when they were very much the thinking man's visceral rock band. On 2002's Blackened Sky, the band’s debut, there were some genuinely heart-wrenching rock moments; now it's all rather polished, and it’s been this way for quite some time.
But at least they’ve never gone folk, in the vein of those other great Scot-rock hopes, Idlewild. And there are some satisfyingly coruscating moments here, most notably Shock Shock and Bubbles. There are some chart-bothering, Muse-lite moments too, such as the pomp-drenched sing-along single The Captain. Essentially, this is an entirely natural evolution for Biffy: the quirks remain, but the hooks have been sharpened and the gloss grows ever thicker.
They’re likeable as ever then, albeit for reasons fairly removed from their first rumblings. But Only Revolutions isn't quite an essential album of 2009, however great a draw the band has become in the live field.
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