BIFFY CLYRO "Only Revolutions" LTD. ED. VINYL BOX #1632

	£		120
	$		159

 
BIFFY CLYRO "Only Revolutions" LTD. ED. VINYL BOX #1632 BEAUTIFUL UNPLAYED COLLECTOR'S SET w/ EXCLUSIVE CONTENT

BIFFY CLYRO
Only Revolutions (Collector's Box Set)

BEAUTIFULLY PACKAGED AND PRESENTED LIMITED EDITION COLLECTOR'S BOX SET FROM THE WONDERFUL BIFFY CLYRO
This set was strictly limited to just 2000 copies worldwide (this copy is number 1632) and only available by mail order in November last year. It quickly sold out (on pre-order, even before its release date) and is now deleted and rapidly increasing in price, so not only a beautiful item in its own right but a solid future investment
THE SET IS IN MINT CONDITION

Two and a bit years on from Biffy Clyro’s long-anticipated charge into popular consciousness with the brilliant spiky rock of ‘Puzzle’, their rise from toilet tour heroes to stadium rockers is cemented – and perfectly encapsulated – on ‘Only Revolutions’. It’s still the same old Biffy, for sure - perfectly orchestrated stop-start verses sewn together with roaring distorted choruses and Simon Neil’s urgent vocals thrown over the top - but the hairy Scots’ fifth album is the sound of a band who’ve grown into their skins after two years spent shirtless and sweaty on ever-growing stages around the world.

‘That Golden Rule’ furrows its brow and stalks menacingly through an opening riff borrowed from the annals of heavy metal, stumbling into a typically melodic Biffy chorus before a dark orchestral panic attack pulls the plug. All in the space of four minutes. Like the whole record, it’s chaotic, schizophrenic and ace. But Biffy Clyro’s giddy po-going from one genre to the next could be both the making of, and breaking of ‘Only Revolutions’; it leaps from the orchestral growling of ‘That Golden Rule’ straight to the Strokesesque pop-rock of ‘Bubbles’ to the unexpected synth that leads ‘Born On A Horse’. Each track is undoubtedly great, but, as an album, ‘Only Revolutions’ sometimes struggles to flow through Biffy’s scatter-bomb of styles.

Lyrically, it’s a record that owes more to poetic vagueness than any kind of Arctic Monkeys-style simplicity (The Fly still trying to work out the hidden meaning of ‘Born On A Horse’s “I’ve never had a lover who’s my sister or my brother before”), but it’s perhaps the most inward-looking album Biffy have released. “I talk to God as much as I talk to Satan, because I want to hear both sides,” sings Simon Neil on the acoustically-charged respite of ‘God & Satan’, and it’s a theme that seems to run through ‘Only Revolutions’ from start to finish, the frontman’s throaty scream working hard to draw a link between the soaring, pompous growls of distortion and the introspective acoustic God-worshipping whimpers. Brilliant single ‘Mountains’ – the band’s first ever foray into the top ten – pleasingly doesn’t stand head and shoulders above the album’s other tracks, even with its epic stadium choruses. “I am the mountain/I am the sea/You can’t take that away from me,” screams Neil as sphincter-troubling bass drums explode beneath him. It’s awesome, but matched by the urgent riff-driven ‘Cloud Of Stink’ and the growling of ‘Shock Shock’, which closes with an unexpected bombardment of drum fills and rumbling guitars.

With ‘Only Revolutions’, Biffy cast a magnifying glass over everything they showcased on ‘Puzzle’. The riffs get louder, the screams more pertinent and the orchestral onslaughts darker and more sinister. ‘Mon the Biffy... (Matt Glass: 'THE-FLY" review)

CONTAINED WITHIN THE BEAUTIFUL BUMPER PACKED BOX ARE:

* a 12"LP pressed on super-heavyweight 200-gram vinyl housed in a single sleeve with a black die-cut inner (the only way to get the LP on vinyl as it was never issued separately)
* a deluxe Foldout Digipack CD and DVD featuring an exclusive documentary on the making of Only Revolutions
* an exclusive 'Somebody Help Me Play' CD with instrumental parts removed so you can jam with Biffy on guitar, bass or drums
* a large 6 panel guitar tab poster with artwork (measuring 33" x 23")
* a 20 page booklet containing the full orchestral score
* 2 exclusive Biffy 'Only Revolutions' stickers
* 2 exclusive 'OR' pin badges
* a Biffy 'Only Revolutions' plectrum
* a beautiful 12" art print printed on quality heavyweight card and signed by the legendary Storm Thorgerson who designed the album art and is probably best know for his work with Pink Floyd
* and a piece of the actual blue flag used for the album cover art
All housed in a beautifully silky matte finish box

THIS REALLY IS A STUNNING SET - PACKED FULL OF FANTASTIC AND EXCLUSIVE MEMORABILIA
THE SET IS MINT AND UNTOUCHED AND ONLY OPENED FOR THREE REASONS:
1. TO CHECK ALL THE CONTENTS ARE PRESENT
2. TO TAKE THE PHOTOGRAPHS, AND
3. TO REPACKAGE PROPERLY WITH INNER PADDING PROTECTION SO THE CONTENTS DO NOT RATTLE AROUND DURING TRANSIT (as they did when I received the set)

PLEASE HAVE A LOOK AT MY PICTURES - I USUALLY TAKE QUITE A FEW SO YOU CAN GET A CLEAR INDICATION OF EVERY DETAIL OF THE ITEM
I HAVE UPLOADED AS MANY AS I CAN BUT I WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO SUPPLY ANY ADDITIONAL PHOTOS ON REQUEST
PLEASE CHECK OUT MY OTHER AUCTIONS FOR MORE RARE AND COLLECTABLE VINYL
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THANKS FOR LOOKING, CHEERS


POST & PACKING
UK: ROYAL MAIL SPECIAL NEXT DAY DELIVERY £4.00
EUROPE: £11.00 International Signed For delivery (with tracking)
INTERNATIONAL: £19.00 International Signed For delivery (with tracking)

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THE SET WILL BE POSTED IN THE ACTUAL PACKAGING IN WHICH I RECEIVED IT FROM THE BIFFY WEBSITE - WHICH IS STURDY AND STRONG


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 308 (GS 5.3.7 (308))