Biffy Clyro’s new materials is sounding “a lot much less Biffy”.
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Simon Neil and co solely launched their tenth studio album Futique in September, however the frontman has been busy penning new materials and revealed he is been experimenting with completely different sounds, together with storage rock and nation rock.
He informed NME of the brand new tunes: “They’re much less focussed, as all the time. I like the great thing about the truth that these different songs have been labored on much less so there’s extra freedom. They’re flapping the breeze and we will concentrate on our eccentricities. There’s a liberation in understanding that people who find themselves actually into our band will hearken to them at this stage. It fills the story and completes our image.
“There are some storage rock songs on there, top-of-the-line nation rock songs I’ve ever written.”
His bandmate James Johnston requested: “Have you ever written many?”
Simon replied: “I’ve truly, thanks very a lot! These aren’t as rock band-y. We intentionally needed to outline our band on ‘Futique’. Every little thing had a relative familiarity. These songs are a lot much less Biffy.”
Followers must wait and see if the brand new tracks make it onto their subsequent album.
Requested if they’re planning a brand new album or EP, Simon stated: “I would love it to be an album. I’m nonetheless old-school. You present that you just’re making a severe assertion with an album. I like how they fill within the gaps and inform the story. Realistically, we’ll wrestle to do it earlier than subsequent summer time. We’ll hopefully get in with [Jonathan] Gilmore and end them off.”
The prolific songwriter says Biffy plan to stay round for years to return and making Futique made him realise it is from “the tip of the highway” for Scottish trio.
He stated: “I preserve pondering, ‘Do we want new Biffy music?’ This retains us creating and shifting ahead with out having an existential disaster. I used to be simply in Barcelona and wrote one other f****** seven songs and I don’t know what to do! I need to full the Futique assertion first and we don’t need to say something new but however I can’t assist however do new stuff. That’s a superb signal. We’ll take it as a constructive that there’s life in outdated f****** canine but.”
Simon added: “I do know that’s ludicrous to say in your tenth album, however we’re nonetheless on this f****** journey. We’re nonetheless discovering new methods to do s***. I’ve learn a bunch of evaluations of Futique. Some folks suppose it’s the identical outdated s*** however the fitting folks realize it’s a celebration of us together with one thing new. The good factor is that releasing this album made me really feel inspired. It’s not the tip of the highway. To not sound cynical, however in some unspecified time in the future it will likely be the tip of the highway – and it ain’t f****** now.”