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Biffy Clyro Set To Release 'Only Revolutions'

• 19th Oct 2009

Biffy Clyro have announced that they will be releasing their new album, Only Revolutions, on 9 November 2009 through 14th Floor Records. The album will be preceded by the anthemic new single ‘The Captain’ on October 26th.

The album includes the Top 10 singles ‘That Golden Rule’, which was put on the Radio 1 A-list a full five weeks upfront, and ‘Mountains’, which was released in August 2008 and became their biggest single success to date as it debuted at #5 and sold over 100,000 copies. The band announced their return with a scintillating performance on ‘Later… With Jools Holland.’

Coming after the mammoth success of fourth album Puzzle, which entered the charts at #2 and marked Biffy Clyro’s transformation into a truly world beating band, Only Revolutions is a further step-up for the Ayrshire trio in an album filled with joy, grit and absolute determination.

Only Revolutions, Biffy Clyro’s fifth album and second with 14th Floor Records, was recorded in LA, once again with producer GGGarth Richardson (Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers) at the helm, and mixed by Andy Wallace (Coldplay, Nirvana). Multiple Grammy-winning composer David Campbell – who has worked with an array of legendary talents including Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, Metallica and Radiohead, and who won an Oscar for the score to ‘Brokeback Mountain’ – contributes lush orchestration throughout. The album also highlights a special guest collaboration with Queens of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme on the epic stand-out anthem ‘Bubbles’.

After the overwhelming sadness of Puzzle, Only Revolutions sees a more hopeful side to Biffy Clyro. The songs are perfectly crafted and full of the idiosyncrasies that define the band’s unique take on contemporary rock. The album is heralded with the military thump of ‘The Captain’ before it erupts into a rush of serrated riffs and euphoric horns. Further highlights include the stripped down agony / ecstasy dilemma of ‘God and Satan’, the soaring power of the hauntingly romantic ‘Man of Horror’ and the visceral nastiness of ‘Shock Shock’.

Biffy Clyro will return to the live arena in November for full tour of the UK and Ireland, followed by a European arena tour as guests to Muse. Their headline tour will see them return to Brixton Academy after their triumphant sell-out gig at the venue last December, as well as two eagerly anticipated homecoming shows at Glasgow’s Barrowlands.

Biffy Clyro have experienced a phenomenal ascension since the release of the lauded Puzzle in 2007 as they earned a reputation as one of the UK’s most celebrated live bands. Their consistently exhilarating live experience has taken them all over the world, including notable dates with Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, The Who and a colossal Wembley Stadium show with Muse.

UK tour dates:

24 October Southampton Guildhall
25 October Cardiff University
26 October Brighton Dome
28 October Belfast St. George’s Market
29 October Dublin Olympia
1 November Dundee Caird Hall
2 November Glasgow Barrowland
3 November Glasgow Barrowland
4 November Newcastle Academy
6 November Leeds Academy
7 November Manchester Apollo
8 November Nottingham Rock City
9 November Birmingham Academy
11 November Norwich UEA
12 November London Brixton Academy