| Drive for an hour so outside Glasgow,
you'll find an unassuming little town called Ayr. It's a pretty
but unremarkable place; certainly not the sort of place you expect
revolutions to start. But then, if we know anything about revolutions,
it's that they never happen quite when or where you expect.
You'll have heard of biffy clyro before of course. About how Simon
Neil and schoolfriend twins James and Ben Johnston formed their
first band as young teenagers at school in the nearby town of Kilmarnock
in 1995 over a shared love of experimental rock and hardcore. You'll
know something of how they earned an army of rabidly devotional
fans - christened Team Biffy – who followed them across the
country and beyond, their hearts swelling with the searing emotion;
their minds expanded by the threesome’s inventive rock that
somehow managed to hit them in the gut at the same time.
And you'll probably know about their three albums; 'Blackened Sky',
'The Vertigo Of Bliss' and 'Infinity Land', which slowly - and on
their own terms - saw them notch up higher and higher chart positions.
What you might not know is that in the two-and-a-half years since
'Infinity Land', they've been hard at work making what could just
be the next truly, historically, important rock record to come out
of the British Isles. It's called 'Puzzle' and it's coming your
way.
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