biffy clyro long-awaited album

biffy clyro will release their long-awaited album Puzzle on 4 June 2007 through 14th Floor Records. The album, their first in three years, sees the band making the bold and ambitious record that will both satisfy their huge and devoted fanbase and win the hearts of countless others, cementing their reputation as the best and most important rock band in the UK.

The album will be preceded by the single 'Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies' on 14 May. The previous single 'Saturday Superhouse' saw the band breaking into the Top 15 for the first time, and received high critical acclaim with the NME heralding the track as an "anthem". A breathtaking live band, biffy clyro headlined the prestigious Kerrang! Tour in January, and will support Bloc Party across Europe in April and May, all before commencing their own headline tour which promises to produce some of the most raucous and exciting live shows of 2007.

Formed in 1999 by Simon Neil (vocals, guitar) and the brothers Ben (drums, vocals) and James Johnston (bass, vocals) in Ayrshire, near Glasgow, biffy clyro's debut album 'Blackened Sky' was released in 2002 and became one of the sleeper hits of the year. Follow-up 'The Vertigo of Bliss' followed in 2003 and was recorded in just one day, capturing the explosive energy of the live shows that implores fans to come back time after time, making their fanbase the most dedicated and passionate in the UK. The band's third album 'Infinity Land' was released in November 2004.

Recorded in Vancouver with veteran producer Garth Richardson (Rage Against The Machine, Kerbdog), mixed in New York by Andy Wallace (Nirvana, At The Drive-In) and with artwork by Storm Thorgerson (Pink Floyd, Muse), Puzzle marks biffy clyro's transformation into a truly world-beating band. Commencing with the apocalyptic opener 'Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies', boasting a stunning baroque choral arrangement and strings by Hollywood arranger Graeme Revell ('Sin City', 'The Crow', 'From Dusk Til Dawn'), it's clear from the outset that this is a gigantic, ostentatious raising of their game.

From soaring download single 'semi-mental' to the bludgeoning punch of 'Saturday Superhouse' through the swollen intensity of the slow-burning 'As Dust Dances' and to the glorious foot-stomping live favourite 'Who's Got A Match?', Puzzle packs an emotional punch with 24-carat choruses shot through with biffy's trademark sideways approach to songwriting. It also sees them anchor some of their most outlandish ideas (check the staggering '9/15ths' for evidence that they've done anything but gone soft) with the sort of clear and crisp melodies that this three-headed powerhouse have been hinting at since the days of 'Justboy' and '27'.

"We just want to make records that people can listen to in 20 years and think they're good fucking records," says Neil, "that's what we want to do; we want to be an important band. And we think we are."

Biffy are currently supporting Bloc Party across Europe, then will play their own UK headline dates:

MAY 2007
Sunday 20 Portsmouth Pyramids 02392 824 355
Monday 21 Oxford Brookes University 01865 484 750
Tuesday 22 London Roundhouse 0870 400 0688
Wednesday 23 Wolverhampton Wolfrun Hall 0870 320 7000
Thursday 24 Cambridge Junction 01223 511 511
Saturday 26 Leeds Metropolitan University 0113 244 4600
Sunday 27 Newcastle University 0191 261 2606
Monday 28 Manchester Academy 2 0161 832 1111
Wednesday 30 Aberdeen Music Hall 01224 641 122
Thursday 31 Edinburgh Potterow 0870 169 0100

JUNE 2007
Friday 1 Glasgow Barrowland 0871 220 0260document.write(unescape("