How difficult it must be to keep the music you create interesting (not only to yourself), different, fresh and downright exciting. Pretty difficult I should say, knowing most of modern rock is merely rehashing each others ideas over and over again. But as in every musical movement, action causes reaction. The more faceless rock music becomes, the fiercer the reaction will be. And that’s where Biffy Clyro breaths down your neck. Well, since the masses have discarded bands like Fugazi, Sugar or Far (and even The Posies for that matter) for years, it is up to Biffy Clyro to give it a probably futile go. The band’s no boundaries-like alternative rock (or post-hardcore, whatever you want) flutters from breathtakingly calm acoustic parts to raging noise explosions, but it is always riding on a never-ending wave of melody and utter dynamics.

Biffy Clyro put you on the wrong track with their musical endeavors. Yet at the same time they pull you back in with their fantastic melodic splendor. They make The Vertigo Of Bliss both familiar as well as adventurous. Kudos. Just listen to “Bodies In Flight” , “With Aplumb” and “Questions And Answers”, and be amazed, for if songs like these do not hit your sensitivity string, you might as well give it all up and shove the new Linkin Park in your player, rest your head and state to yourself: I am not worthy of Biffy Clyro. So don’t make Biffy Clyro’s work a futile attempt at creating rock history, but make it work. Buy the album and be challenged, because in the end the reward will be so much bigger.