Deconstructive, deliberate and exquisitely designed, The Myth Of The Happily Ever After is the sound of a world-class band making truly world-class music.
The Myth of the Happily Ever After serves as an excellent and shockingly ambitious outing from a band that seemed to be trending in all the wrong directions not long ago. With this album, they’ve reclaimed control of their story.
Beautiful in style and intent, The Myth Of The Happily Ever After has magic written into every note.
It’s an exercise in catharsis, providing an accurate snapshot into the minds and mentality of the band certainly, but also the general public of the last year and a half.
While it may still dodge that screeching mania of their earlier material, ‘The Myth Of The Happily Ever After’ stands up stronger than some of their later albums.
While The Myth of the Happily Ever After might not represent a new creative peak for Biffy Clyro, it's a solid and occasionally captivating record, with some wonderful arrangements that point the band in tantalising new directions.
Over the last few years Biffy Clyro have done a pretty great job at consistently topping up their fans with new full length releases and music, here they delve into their more pop sensibilities.
So I’m listening to this on the back of the new Coldplay snoozefest as I am looking for a reprieve, ‘Dum Dum’ is the opener which just passes me by, next up ‘A Hunger In Your Heart’ has a riff and a pretty enjoyable chorus with some cool dynamics and I like this song ... read more
After one listen this might be my favourite Biffy release since I first got into the band, with their excellent 2013 double album Opposites.
Another solid album in the same mold as their previous album. Another album released during covid and its pretty experimental with a good mix of songs. Nothing bad on the album although I feel the 2nd half is slightly weaker. Highlight for me is A Hunger in Your Haunt.
Fav Songs - Hunger In Your Haunt, Seperate Missions, Unknown Male 01
That completes the Biffy discography to date, a local band for me and one I have followed since their debut. Some great memories for me particularly in the ... read more
Why on earth did Slurpy Slurpy Sleep Sleep have a rating as high as a 76 before I scored it?! That might be one of, if not the worst Biffy Clyro song I think I've ever heard. There's different sections I guess, and there's a section of singing in the middle, but so much of the song is taken up by multiple minutes of just droning "Slurpy Slurpy Sleep Sleep" like a robot. And I couldn't listen to that whole thing again. I'm sorry. Once was too much, let alone twice. People might like it ... read more
Another solid album in the same mold as their previous album. Another album released during covid and its pretty experimental with a good mix of songs. Nothing bad on the album although I feel the 2nd half is slightly weaker. Highlight for me is A Hunger in Your Haunt.
Fav Songs - Hunger In Your Haunt, Seperate Missions, Unknown Male 01
That completes the Biffy discography to date, a local band for me and one I have followed since their debut. Some great memories for me particularly in the ... read more
Started off pretty strong but I feel it kinda fell flat right there at the end. Not really sure how to feel about the closing track, it left me bewildered to say the least. But overall this definitely sounds like Biffy Clyro and it works in some places and doesn't in others. It ain't bad
1 | DumDum 3:32 | 71 |
2 | A Hunger In Your Haunt 3:49 | 89 |
3 | Denier 2:59 | 77 |
4 | Separate Missions 5:18 | 85 |
5 | Witch’s Cup 4:44 | 75 |
6 | Holy Water 5:40 | 80 |
7 | Errors In The History Of God 4:16 | 76 |
8 | Haru Urara 3:15 | 78 |
9 | Unknown Male 01 6:08 | 82 |
10 | Existed 4:09 | 70 |
11 | Slurpy Slurpy Sleep Sleep 6:09 | 73 |
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