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Only Revolutions (album)

Only Revolutions
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Studio album by Biffy Clyro
Released 9 November 2009
Recorded May 2009 – September 2009
Studio Ocean Way Recording
(Hollywood, California)
Genre Alternative rock
Length 42:49
Label 14th Floor
Producer Garth "GGGarth" Richardson
Biffy Clyro chronology
Missing Pieces
(2009)
Only Revolutions
(2009)
Lonely Revolutions
(2010)
Singles from Only Revolutions
  1. "Mountains"
    Released: 18 August 2008
  2. "That Golden Rule"
    Released: 23 August 2009
  3. "The Captain"
    Released: 26 October 2009
  4. "Many Of Horror"
    Released: 18 January 2010
  5. "Bubbles"
    Released: 2 May 2010
  6. "God & Satan"
    Released: 23 August 2010
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars
Clash (7/10)
Drowned In Sound (8/10)
The Fly 4/5 stars
Gigwise 4/5 stars
The Guardian 4/5 stars
Kerrang! 4/5 stars
NME (8/10)
Q 4/5 stars
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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