Biffy Clyro - Opposites
It was with some supposition that Opposites would be Biffy Clyro's first proof of mainstream success: the album that launched them into a world of stadium tours, inescapable TV montages and the victims of thousands of "I prefer their early stuff"s and "they've sold out!"s. That their 2009 schmaltz-fest Many of Horror was chosen as the X Factor winner's single the very next year came as something of a surprise, and its renaming as Matt Cardle's When We Collide (for music fans so inattentive that they're only capable of buying songs whose choruses begin, rather than end, with the title) quite justifiably rubbed up their fans the wrong way. Alas, he's already a nobody now, and Biffy continue to grab #1s with this, their sixth studio album. Originally pitched back in 2011 as a pair of albums, Opposites is a double-LP with separate titles - The Land at the End of our Toes and The Sand at the Core of our Bones . It's not the first time...