Puzzle

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This comes after Biffy announced their intentions in August 2022 to use a "different producer for each track" on their next album. You don’t get much further away from their abrasive and discordant early releases than this, a tender and affecting ballad from 2020’s A Celebration Of Endings. In 2018, the group released the live acoustic album MTV Unplugged: Live at Roundhouse, London, which reached number 2 on the Scottish Albums Chart and number 4 on the UK Albums Chart. Though the super-slick production of the new material has been a point of widespread contention amongst naysayers, in the context of the whole album it makes much more sense.

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starts off sounding for all the world like Siamese Dream-era Smashing Pumpkins, until Simon Neil’s impassioned cries are carried on a wave of fuzzy guitars. The Vertigo of Bliss followed in 2003, with single " Questions and Answers" reaching the top ten of the Scottish Singles Chart. But by cutting away the fat, they ended up with this rock anthem, complete with horn section and anthemic chorus. The stone-cold killer melody and heart-swelling sentiment of opening track Living is a Problem, meanwhile, manages to transcend the song’s somewhat over-polished production. Of course I love their experimental side, but I feel the saying 'less is more' couldn't be any more fitting here.Spawning six singles – including UK top 5 hit Mountains and the brass-powered stomp of The Captain– Only Revolutions is free of filler.

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Only One Word Comes to Mind": "Official Scottish Singles Chart Top 100: 20 February 2005 – 26 February 2005". Perhaps as a reaction to some of the harsh reviews which greeted their debut, Simon Neil later admitted that they wanted to “fuck with people” and fashioned a template of Biffy's own making, throwing off-kilter time signatures, unusual chord arrangements and heavily-disguised, inventive pop songs into the mix. In an interview with the NME, the band stated that they had started work on a follow up to Puzzle, with Simon Neil saying that the album would include some of the band's "heaviest riffs to date".

and finally (a little petty but nevermind), although I agree about the utter rubbish that gets bafflingly overhyped now a days (thanks NME) you made bad by naming Bloc Party.