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Covering some familiar territory this morning.
Biffy Clyro, in case you aren’t familiar, is a Scottish band with some 9 studio albums to their credit – including one recorded, in of all places, Los Angeles), have received just about every award and acknowledgement from the British press imaginable.
Their seventh studio album, Ellipsis reached number one upon release in 2016. Based on their album and single certifications, the band sold in excess of 1,240,000 albums and 400,000 singles in the UK alone. A Celebration of Endings was released on 14 August 2020, and debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart on 21 August 2020. The Myth of the Happily Ever After was released on 22 October 2021, and entered the UK album chart at number four.
As of 2021, in total, the band have spent 165 weeks in the top seventy-five of the UK Album Charts, with three of those weeks being at the top position at number one and 76 weeks within the main top forty of the albums charts. The band’s singles have spent a total of 79 weeks in the UK Singles Charts, with six weeks in the top ten and 42 in the top forty.
Biffy Clyro had initially announced a UK, Europe and Australia arena tour, beginning in September 2020, although this was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, the band played a livestream concert from the Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow, playing all the songs from their new album. They also announced a series of tour dates in smaller venues in April 2021, titled the Fingers Crossed Tour, though this was also postponed to October-November 2021.
The band contributed a cover of the Metallica song “Holier Than Thou” to the charity tribute album The Metallica Blacklist, released in September 2021. On 3 September 2021, they released the single “Unknown Male 01”, alongside the announcement of another album titled The Myth of the Happily Ever After, which was released on 22 October 2021.
In February 2022, Amazon Prime Video released an hour-long documentary about Biffy Clyro and the making of The Myth of the Happily Ever After, titled Cultural Sons of Scotland.
Suffice to say, they are very well regarded and their fans are legion, and have been since they got started in 1995.
So if you are familiar with them, here’s a taste of them in 2011. If you aren’t familiar with them, here’s a taste of what you’ve been missing.
Rise and shine.
