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Puzzle | 
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| Artist: Biffy Clyro
Label: 14th Floor
Category: Music
List Price: £10.99
Buy New: £4.98
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Rating:  62 reviews
Sales Rank: 561
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 825646997633
EAN: 0825646997633
ASIN: B000N4S8RA
Release Date: June 4, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Tracks:
| • | Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies | | • | Saturday Superhouse | | • | Who's Got A Match | | • | As Dust Dances/Two Fifteenths | | • | Whole Child Ago | | • | Conversation Is | | • | Now I'm Everyone | | • | Semi Mental/Four Fifteenths | | • | Love Has A Diameter | | • | Get Fucked Stud | | • | Folding Stars | | • | Nine Fifteenths | | • | Machines |
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Amazon.co.uk
It's been a less than Roman trail up to this point for long-haul, stubbly Scot trio Biffy Clyro. From the proto-grunge of their debut, through gathering melodic grandeur, progressive cross-genre experimentalism, brief indie accessibility and some truly heavy songwriting, to say they've surpassed expectations along the way is an understatement as large as the chasm between their original potential and subsequent accomplishment. They had doggedness and resilience from the off, they were a roughly musical Glasgow-kiss that left a mark and no doubt one or two fractures, but as persuasive as they might have been the Biffy Clyro of then could never have written the Queen vs. Fall Out Boy orchestral future-emo audaciousness of "Living Is a Problem Because Everyone Dies". That they did now should give Muse and Panic at the Disco cause for concern. What they've done with Puzzle then that they haven't exactly done before is marry their experimental bent with their swelling urge for accessibility, brilliantly. Acoustic "Machines" and rocketing "Saturday Superhouse" could be from the respective flip-sides of the Foo Fighters' double album, In Your Honour, only with that glint in the eye that long since evaded Grohl's mob. Hell, they even go a touch post-punk with bells on for a flash on "A Whole Child Ago". Is there nothing they won't turn their hands to and wring dry without breaking a sweat? Still waiting to find it. - - James Berry
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 There's just no middle ground... August 7, 2007
S. MCBEATH (uk)
19 out of 22 found this review helpful
Many bands these days seem to get hyped up on there first album, only to get slaughtered by the press on their second and then forgotten about by their third effort. Biffy on the other hand, have gradually floated to the surface, building up a hardcore contingent of fans along the way. `Puzzle' looks set to propel the band into the mainstream. The band hold some heavy weight respect having provided support for Muse at Wembley Stadium and are due to perform the same role for the Chilli Peppers at Hampden Stadium in August. A concert which I really am looking forward to!
Anyway, Puzzle is the 4th album to come from Biffy's locker. I came across them due to my brother being obsessed with them from day one. I really liked Blackened Sky and went to see them a number of times. When `Question and Answers' and `Infinity Land' came along I didn't appreciate them at the time because I felt they were just trying to over-complicate things for the sake of it. Over the last year though, I have listened to these albums more and now find them refreshingly different from what was out at the time. This made me wait for Puzzle with great anticipation...
With Puzzle it is like they have completed the full circle from when they began, and then stepped it up a gear. To break this down; with their first album it was the accessible indie/rock songs such as `27', `57' with some signs of prog in `Convex concave', which showed hints of their potential early on. The second album saw them exploring their guitar sounds and song structures more. While the 3rd album expanded their array of experimentation even more, through vocal harmonies, etc. Puzzles' roots clearly are from their first album, as they just wanted to go back to basics and make an album for the fun of blasting out a mixture of all out rock with acoustic masterpieces. Although the intro to `Living is a problem because everyone dies', along with numerous other points in the album, shows that they have taken bits from the two previous albums to put the `we haven't forgotten the progress we've made on the last two albums' stamp on some of the songs.
This is one of those albums you'll either love or hate, leaving no middle ground. If you do love it, it will make every other record in your collection seem inferior for a month or 6. `Puzzle' can be split into 3 large pieces; Rock, acoustic and rock ballady indie epic type songs. The main rockers are the singles; `Semi-mental' and `Saturday Superhouse', both are all out, brilliant sing along tunes. The title `Semi-mental' does not do the song justice as it is `FULLY MENTAL!'. The acoustic songs end the album with `Machines' and `drop it'. Listening to the lyrics in `Machines' its one of those ones that everyone can relate to at some time in their life. ie - not appreciating what they have and how lucky they are etc. Drop it on the other hand has got a kind of slow country feel to it; would be interesting to see if they took that sort of direction in the future. The last category is the sweeping, epic, rock ballady songs such as songs ending with /15ths and my favourite song on the album `The conversation is....' The easy comparison can be made to the Foo Fighters, but the reality is these are great songs, which definitely can be distinguished as Biffy's own.
This really is a great album and its almost as if Biffy knew when they were writing it that this would be the one that made them big with lyrics like - `looks like we made it' from `A whole child ago' and `This is the one' from `Now I'm everyone'. Its almost as if they're trying to send subliminal messages to people, to brainwash them into loving the album..................well it worked for me anyway!
Excellent. August 28, 2007
Swish
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Previous Biffy fans bemoan this LP in a really harsh way. I wasn't a Biffy fan before this album. It sits very nicely with my Idlewild and Hell Is For Heroes records... Only, maybe even better. Good quality from start to finish. Check it out unless you're an old fan of Biffy Clyro, then it seems that you should avoid, apparently!
Penny Dixon June 5, 2007
Penny Dixon (Glasgow)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Biffy are classed as progressive, a word that encompasses everything that moves and changes. This album certainly does that, in regard to their old stuff anyway. I've been following them since Blackened Sky, and have watched the changes move from oh-so-beautiful Blackened Sky to gritty Vertigo to confusing Infinite Land. and now this...
Puzzle is a solid, melodic and a sing-along masterpiece, the only real bad points being the short length of songs and slightly over-produced sound. Slightly though, because the clean recording actually helps the melodies slide along rather than hinder.
Great album chaps, Mon e biffy
Just great June 28, 2007
Bob Ski
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Buy it! Play it! Love it! This album is fantastic. Best I've bought in a long time. After a week listening to it in the car I went out and bought their back catalogue. Can't recommend this album enough, but you've got to listen to it!!!!
My first choice ban for P in the Dark. Another world class band from Scotland!!!!
Finding the best British act for years is definatly no Puzzle... June 25, 2007
Cameron Robbins (Scotland, Carnoustie)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Epic.
If you can find another word to describe this album tell me.
Written about his mother, Elanore (sp?), the album tells us about his feelings as a result of bereavement. Denial (Living is a problem), Anger (Who's got a match?), Reflection (A whole child ago), Isolation (The conversation is...), And helplessness (Machines).
The first song, Living is a problem... is the best intro to an album bar none. Full of energy, emotion and feeling, it really makes you think "Hell, now THIS is a band!"
A much more deeply rooted album that deals with an everday topic, Biffy Clyro have struck gold with Puzzle, entering at number two behind Rhianna in the UK album chart, they deserve all the success they get.
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