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Feb 15, 2013Ultimately, Biffy Clyro's gift as a band is to craft songs that balance immediately catchy hooks with complex arrangements that only help to reinforce the drama of the pop moment. Thankfully, there are plenty of these dichotomous yet rapturous moments on Opposites.
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Mar 13, 2013Fans of Biffy Clyro will dive headlong into these 20 new songs and embrace them as feverishly as anything the band have previously released, but that’s not to say that this record isn’t without its flaws.
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MojoJan 24, 2013Heartfelt and brilliantly executed, it's a creative peak. [Feb 2013, p.89]
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Q MagazineFeb 8, 2013Their sixth album has everything you should want from a rock group: riffs, daring ambition, big choruses and a bit with bagpipes in it. [Mar 2013, p.103]
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Jan 28, 2013By the time you reach the halfway point and prepare for CD2, you realise Opposites is not, as feared, an unedited expanse of rock-band mind splurge, but two albums' worth of well-constructed songs.
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Feb 1, 2013The double album is a difficult thing to pull off, but considering the anticipation before the release of Biffy Clyro’s sixth LP, the trio have done a fine job.
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Jan 24, 2013Opposites may not be the career-defining masterpiece it's intended as, but it's certainly not the pompous disaster it could have been: it has failings, but not the ones you might expect.
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Jan 24, 2013What we get is Britain's best proper rock band doing what they do until we're numb to what makes them special.
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Mar 6, 2013Opposites is ultimately a surprisingly immediate and rewarding listen, compensating in consistency for what it lacks in depth.
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Alternative PressFeb 26, 2013It's the perfect addition to their ever idiosyncratic and unpredictable repertoire. [Apr 2013, p.86]
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Jan 28, 2013Across 80 minutes there's the sense they might have spread themselves too thinly.
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Jan 25, 2013There's precious little of the experimentation or variety you might expect.
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Classic Rock MagazineJun 6, 2013A bona fide, big, stadium-pleasing epic. [Mar 2013, p.95]
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Jan 24, 2013It's a solid, engaging and high-calibre Biffy Clyro album. And that's no bad thing.
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Jan 25, 2013If you're already a Biffy Clyro fan, Opposites might be your idea of a masterpiece. If you're new to Biffy, it'll just give you a headache.
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Jan 28, 2013Most of disc one consists of ponderous, blustering nonsense, with a black chandelier used as a metaphor for depression. Disc two shows more promise.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 48 out of 56
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Mixed: 4 out of 56
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Negative: 4 out of 56
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