Album Review

Biffy Clyro – Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies

• 7th Jun 2007

Currently beneath a mountain of praise and press adulation Biffy Clyro are being heralded as something of the new crown princes’ of British alt rock.
The amazing thing is just how much noise this band make with three guys, it’s interesting then how their sound brushes against similar trio’s-Muse and even Nirvana and in some cases, like their new single-‘Living is a problem because everything dies’ it sounds like the latter band attempting the former. What Biffy do so well is create arresting music that cannot be placed in the background, awash and adorned with original ideas most bands wouldn’t attempt until they had an established career to fall back on should the results prove awful. Cylro seem to throw themselves into the sound, when lesser artists would move away-it’s this immediacy and freshness that means they are fast approaching something great and ‘Living…’ is more than signpost to this upcoming event, it’s the opening salvo in Biffy Cylro’s assault on music.