Biffy Clyro Album: “Puzzle [UK Bonus DVD]”

You know how Oasis CD's always sound big and urgent, like something great is going to happen? There's a lot of that here, and unfortunately nothing really does. "Folding Stars" is the best example of that, big guitars and the lead up to the multi-harmony chorus . . . that just isn't there. "Dust Dances" is the slow burner type that sounds promising, but as the band gets into it they keep stretching lines out looking for something to click that doesn't quite happen, it all sounds like the lead up to the passage they were looking for and never found. "Saturday" goes against their sound, it's too fast and loud, and again never quite gets to a memorable hook.

A very frustrating CD, because I liked their sound and voices and was kind of rooting for them to really hit it. The problem is the one thing they're missing is the most difficult of all, nothing else really matters if you can write hooks. And if you can't, no amount of good noise makes up for it, because it just drains in one ear and out the other. You can learn a lot about music, but you can't learn to hit the gong, you either have it or you don't. Sorry guys.

I saw the "Mountains" video on tv and liked it very much. So I bought this latest album. From the first notes on, I thought, this is a special band. And the album turned out to be great. Really love it ! And it never left the cdplayer since. This is the best album of 2007.....and maybe 2008 ?

biffy clyro is all over the place, great musicians. this album is great. can't believe this band really isn't bigger state side.

Biffy Clyro absolutley know what they are doing when they write music. Interesting album, I've listened to it 5 times in a row when I got it and still not sick of it. Highly recomanded!

...I have been a huge biffy clyro fan for a while...Infinity Land is one of my favorite albums being both experimental and never at a point where I could wrap one genre around it...it took a while for a new album to come out (especially after the tragic death of the lead singer's mother) but there really is no excuse for this...

...the first track "Living is a problem because everyone dies" is a very good song with the use of violins and children's singing (in a ghostly way) to create an amazingly good song...unfortunately that's where the downhill slope becomes literally vertical...

...songs like "Who's got a match" and "Folding stars" are poppy even for Biffy's standards...I could cope with "Questions and Answers" and "My Recovery Injection" because the rest of the album made up for it and they weren't that awful...they're probably in the same category as "Saturday Superhouse" on this album...

...what bothers me even more is they are getting huge praise and even radio play from daytime radio which is pretty much saying to them like a tellytubby "again again again!!"...

...ok to conclude this album is nothing compared to their older albums and if you honestly believe that it is then I guess you are a better Biffy fan then me...download the one good song and hope that they will go back to their old ways...or something new and fresh...just evolve into something interesting...so until that happens this will be my last Mon the Biff...