10 Musicians You Love For The Wrong Album

7. Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions

What You SHOULD Love Them For: Puzzle

Remember Matt Cardle? That singing decorator with a silly cap who won the X Factor back in 2010? Well, you could probably make a pretty good argument that he was one of the best things that ever happened to Biffy Clyro. His cover of Many of Horror, or When We Collide as Simon Cowell rechristened it, rocketed up the Christmas charts, dragging the profile of everybody’s favourite shirtless Scots with it.

Of course, the Biff were a big deal before they got appropriated by the mainstream, but it felt like afterwards you couldn’t twiddle a radio knob or flick on a music channel without hearing Simon Neil and the boys do their thing. As a result, Only Revolutions, the album from which Many Of Horror was plucked, became a massive, massive deal - and nobody’s saying it shouldn’t have been - but it’s predecessor, Puzzle, was so much better.

From the erratic, juddering orchestral stabs of Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies you just know you’re about to wrap your earholes around something special. Neil seems to find another level as a songwriter on the huge, soaring choruses of songs like Saturday Superhouse and semi-mental, and lyrically he is as absurd and wryly humorous as ever.

But it’s the heartbreaking tributes to his late mother that really hit hardest. Folding Stars and Machines in particular are as poignant and touching portrayals of grief as you are ever likely to hear, and while Only Revolutions may be the album that has stuck in the public consciousness, Puzzle is the one that showed the world just how incredible Biffy could be.