Biffy Clyro Entertainment Art "Body Language" (Wea/14th Floor) Released May 25, 2007

The beginnings of several of the songs have that familiar-because-you’ve-heard-ten-songs-like-it feel, so they’re not getting many points in the originality department. Instead of thinking, “man, this sounds like it’ll be good” you’re thinking “man, this sounds like (insert band name here).” Point being if your audience is thinking about other bands every time one of your songs starts playing, you’re doing something wrong.

There are also only a few songs in which the vocals and the music go together; on most of the tracks the singing sounds out of place, almost as if the vocals are on the wrong song. Music and vocals meshing and becoming one piece of work is what makes a song good, and that meshing only happened on a few tracks. The second song, “Living Is a Problem Because Everyone Dies”, is one of the rare ones that connects the voice and the music. “Now I’m Everyone” is another of the actually good/ good-sounding tracks; it’s one of those songs you’d want to sing along to in the car. “Machines” is pretty good too, if you like Dashboard Confessional, and “Love Has a Diameter” is a great song if you just ignore most of the lyrics.

Biffy Clyro probably busted their asses to make this album, and that’s awesome, but they just missed the mark in almost every song; having two or three good ones out of fourteen is not good for a band that’s been together and in the industry for as long as they have. As time goes on and bands seem to be getting worse, the audience is getting pickier, and mediocrity will not impress a knowledgeable rock fan. If Biffy wants to be historical and important, all I can say is better luck next time.

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