8 Mind-Bending Album Covers And What They Really Mean
2. Biffy Clyro Puzzle
All right, I'll just cut straight to the chase. The album artwork for Biffy Clyro's Puzzle released in 2007 and spawning singles Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies and Semi-Mental was designed by Storm Thorgerson. Are you really that surprised? The man got around. The artwork depicts a man hunched over in a chair in the foreground. His skin is covered in jigsaw markings, and it appears as if one of the jigsaw pieces has fallen from the man, leaving a fleshy hole in his side. In the background, various figures are looking through a brightly-lit door. The artwork is thought to be a reference to the album's track Glitter And Trauma, specifically your skin will break into jigsaw-shaped pieces of meat, you'll fall apart. In the context of the song (and therefore giving the album wider meaning) the lyric is essentially referring to a person who has the potential to do something, but simply refuses (you can save them all, I believe that you can, even though you never listen).
