‘A Celebration of Endings’ finds Biffy Clyro in rich, untouchable form – a band at the peak of their powers.
It offers up a brand of gut-wrenching, defiant hope.
With Celebration, Biffy illustrate that guitar music isn’t just alive and well - it’s bloody thriving.
On A Celebration of Endings, Biffy Clyro couldn’t care less about perception or expectation; to quote “Instant History”, this is the sound that they make, and they’re going all-in – no half measures.
Decidedly bolder than 2016's Ellipsis, it is an album that revels in subverting expectations.
With A Celebration of Endings, Biffy Clyro prove beyond doubt that they've got the idiosyncratic sewn up.
This is a band that is still nowhere near finished.
A Celebration Of Endings is a strong but varied offering from the Kilmarnock-hailing group, in which the impressive and accomplished moments heavily outweigh the more undistinguished chunks.
This record channels and blends the raucous energy of Biffy’s early days with the perspective the band has developed – both artistic and social – thanks to the very advancement of time some may worry could dull the band’s mental resolve or aural punch.
An album that soothes, shakes and surprises at every turn.
The music they've made in these dark times celebrates a faith in the possibility of collective redemption, rather than being a desperate rant that evokes the end of the Anthropocene.
A Celebration of Endings is a musically varied, bright, and intriguing album that has plenty of high points for devotees throughout its run.
Ultimately, A Celebration of Endings fits with Biffy Clyro's long-standing knack for combining stadium-sized rock uplift with an undercurrent of wry post-punk thrills.
Although it’s difficult to see many traces of any evolving going on here, Biffy Clyro have, as predicted, made another decent collection.
Biffy fan or not, there is much to enjoy on this album.
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