10 Mainstream Acts That The 'Real Music Fans' Need To Check Out

2. Biffy Clyro

When Matt Cardle rebranded Biffy Clyro's 2009 single 'Many Of Horror' as 'When We Collide', fans weeped for the souls of their Scottish heroes. But a year after that fiasco, once Cardle had probably become a painter again or something, the song transformed back into it's original incarnation, but as a stronger and more poignant peak of Biffy's now headlining set. Whether they liked it or not, the band had entered the mainstream. Last year they released one of their more accomplished statements yet, in the form of double album 'Opposites'. Taking the sound that they'd established in the charts with 'Only Revolutions' and injecting it with hints of their earlier math-rock tendencies, Biffy became one of the only mainstream bands that can truly lay claim to producing balls-to-the-wall rock music. Tracks such as 'Modern Magic Formula' are crammed with enough brutal discordance to flail about like a coke addict to, whereas 'Black Chandelier' and 'Stingin' Belle' are anthemic enough to spark the kind of mass sing-alongs you'd usually hear at a One Direction show. If anyone unacquainted wanted to explore Biffy's catalogue, the best album to start with would be 'Puzzle' due to the fact that they were slowly filtering into the mainstream at the point of its creation, it provides the perfect transition point between earlier experiments, and the arena conquering anthems they're now known for.