Booooom, Blast & Ruin
| Only Revolutions | ||||
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| Studio album by Biffy Clyro | ||||
| Released | 9 November 2009 | |||
| Recorded | May 2009 – September 2009 | |||
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Ocean Way Recording (Hollywood, California) |
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| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 42:49 | |||
| Label | 14th Floor | |||
| Producer | Garth "GGGarth" Richardson | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| Clash | (7/10) |
| Drowned In Sound | (8/10) |
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| The Guardian | |
| Kerrang! | |
| NME | (8/10) |
| Q | |
| Rock Sound | (9/10) |
Only Revolutions is the fifth studio album by Scottish alternative rock band Biffy Clyro, released 9 November 2009 on 14th Floor Records. As with its predecessor, Puzzle, the album was produced by Garth Richardson. Upon release, Only Revolutions was a critical and commercial success. The album entered at #8 on the UK Album Chart and was then certified gold by the BPI shortly afterwards. It was certified platinum by the BPI in June 2010 for shipments of 300,000 copies in the UK, making it the band's largest selling album. In September 2010, the album achieved a new peak position of #3. It was the 26th biggest selling album of 2010 in the UK with sales of 377,900. It was nominated for the 2010 Mercury Prize, which is awarded annually for the best album in the UK or Ireland, and Rock Sound declared it third in its list of the 75 best albums of 2009.
In 2006, Biffy Clyro signed a major-label contract with Warner Bros. Records and some fans considered them sell-outs. They however experienced ten years of limited success.
In an interview with NME in September 2008, Simon Neil confirmed that work had begun on a followup to Puzzle, the new material containing some of the band's 'heaviest riffs to date,' while also introducing keyboards, suggesting some experimentation. The first preview of the album came the following November, the band debuting a new song 'God & Satan' while playing an acoustic gig at London's Union Chapel. In a March 2009 Kerrang! magazine article, it was stated that they planned to enter the studio and begin recording in April 2009. The same Kerrang! article revealed a working title for the upcoming album - "Boom, Blast and Ruin". Although this title was eventually scrapped, it was revealed that a song of the same name would appear on the album.
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