Opposites by Biffy Clyro

Opposites, Biffy Clyro's sixth studio album, arrived on 28 January 2013 on 14th Floor Records, and the Kilmarnock trio went big in every sense. The plan was first pitched as two records, and their titles, "The Land at the End of Our Toes" and "The Sand at the Core of Our Bones", ended up naming the two discs of one sprawling double album: 20 songs in all, with a single-disc edition of 14 for the less committed.

Garth Richardson produced, and he gives Simon Neil's riffs and howl, James Johnston's bass and Ben Johnston's drums a huge, polished roar without sanding off the band's odd angles; the twins' backing vocals pile up behind Neil like a terrace choir. "Black Chandelier" swings from brooding to euphoric in a few bars. It gave the band their first UK chart-topping album, and by July 2016 it had sold 260,720 copies there.

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