Finally exhausting the supplies of potential singles from their Puzzle album, Biffy Clyro released Who’s Got A Match? on 4 February. And after a string of introspective acoustic ballads, it’s nice to hear the boys knocking up the tempo a little bit and releasing a heavier track.

Who’s Got A Match? revolves around a fairly heavy rhythm with a quirky ascending/descending guitar line. Simon Neil’s vocal demonstrates a heavy Scots accent, slightly stilted, but that sort of awkward delivery stamps the Biffy seal all over this song.

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We’re loving the new Biffy Clyro single, Machines at Unreality Music. In fact, it’s safe to say that Biffy Clyro are fast becoming a favourite band with us.

Machines is such a beautiful, melancholy song which I believe deals with the death of singer Simon Neil’s mother. I think because the song is so obviously personal, it’s one of those tracks that you listen to and have a lump in your throat by the end.

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Another one of those bands that are getting the full benefit of the Radio 1 hype machine are Biffy Clyro. I’d never heard of them before Edith Bowman started ranting on about them incessantly.

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