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Biffy Clyro: Glitter and Trauma

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by Sean Adams
Biffy, biffy, biffy...

Let’s get these words outta the way: prolific, hard working, greatest touring band of the last decade, dance beats, time changes… WAIT! Dance beats? Where’d these come from? Me either. But my word, like absinthe and champagne cocktails, it works. Biffy are in a chart-attacking, party mood. Stop. Get into the groove. Dance muthas...

Biffy really do 'do pop' this time around. And they bludgeon it with slabs of art-joy. ’Glitter and Trauma’ is the opening slice off of their forthcoming (and frankly, fantastic once again) third album ’Infinity Land’. Guitars flutter over tribal tubthumping. Simon's lyrics glide in that tried and tested psyche psychedelic Biffy way. S'all rushes of imagery and reality inflections: “You, you are, you are the human strobe”. We’re lost in music.

The b-sides are noizy and once again full of ideas which we’ll only truly understand and appreciate in a decade's time. But the single's great and Biffy are now a true force to be reckoned with. Without pop subversion, without polluting the mainstream, none of us would be here today. A generation of Busted fans need guidance. The revolution will not be homogenized.

Now, get that contented, knowing smile back on your face and ‘mon the Biffy!

  • Biffy Clyro 8 / 10

Biffy Clyro - Glitter and Trauma

Nice Review, i'm gonna get it today!

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be careful which type of single you buy.
I accidentally bought the DVD version which was slightly annoying as there's no audio version on that.

By the way, the video is as ace as the song

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yeah, easily one of their best songs - melodic, abrasive, restless, glorius. Even better than, ooooh, '27'. 'Stars and Shites' is still an excrutiating name for a B-side, though.

As is customary to say at this juncture, 'Mon The Biffy!

Biffy Clyro - Glitter and Trauma

"mon the Biffy!"

Biffy Clyro - Glitter and Trauma

yay, i got the cd, dvd and 7", and they are all sweet as fuck. Cant wait for Infinity Land to come out!

Biffy Clyro - Glitter and Trauma

mon the biffy !!!

and mon the tour !!!

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you're going to the brum gig aren't you?

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Yep !

Brum and Reading.

It shall rocketh like nothing has ever rocketh before !

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Cool. Do you, or anybody else for that matter, know who's supporting?

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They just did an Instore in One Up in Aberdeen.

Apparently One Up in Aberdeen sold more copies of a Blackened Sky than any other store in the UK.

Wierd

One Up is the largest Indie store in Scotland.

[facts-for-the-day-core-innit]

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It's where they're from, innit?

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No, they're from Kilmarnock.
I think.

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You're two-thirds correct, Si's from Ayr :)

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One Up, the largest indie in Scotland?

That is indeed strange. Doesn't the Avalanche chain count?

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Woah, some cool stuff there that I didn't know!! One-Up largest indie in Scotland? Nice!

Well, they're selling Blackened Sky for a fiver now, so that encourages sales somewhat.....but point taken..

And I missed the fuggin' instore cuz I had a fuggin' exam the next day....fugg that.

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i was getting a chipper yesterday and saw biffy smoking a "long nice smelling ciggarette" in their hippy van! they rock!

Biffy Clyro - Glitter and Trauma

OK now
hate to seem negative
but seriously
HOW fucking bad is biffy's artwork?
i mean, i like the style of the illustrations, but the content? sub spinal tap smell the glove-isms? i woman pleasuring herslef sitting in a rock? it doesnt even strike me as working ironically.

and the type on the 7" is near illegible.

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the naked ladies certainly made me titter! its hardly music to wank to, is it girls?

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haha !

Come on , Biffy have always had dodgy artwork !

Just look at the cover for Vertigo of Bliss - a woman with her hand up her modesty !

But your right about the text, it really hard to read !

Anyway...who cares, the single kicks ass so bring on the tour !!!

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I think the evil dolls artwork, and the new artwork is good. Anything 'Vertigo Of Bliss'-era is bad, bad, bad though.

The worst was the 'Eradicate The Doubt' art.

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Biffy rule with an iron fist! This track is supurb! Can't wait for the album! What do people here think about the ''...Jaggy Snake'' tune?

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Biffy the best band of the decade?
You need to get out more...

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Best LIVE band I believe he said...

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Biffy Clyro-Raising the profile of Cliff Richard since the dark ages.

Biffy Clyro - Glitter and Trauma

Bozanoid Deathgrip is great! The other B side isnt as good i don't think. Jaggy Snake is a good song, but they have done better. The video for this song is brilliant.

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great single!
looking forward to seeing them play at the barrowlands, glasgow in october. I heard a rumour that support will be from there new label mates, dead fly bukowski.
who knows.....?