It's not unusual for a band to offer standard and deluxe versions of an album on the day of release, although those extra tracks and "making of" DVDs usually come further down the line, when there's a whiff of having to fork out for something you've more or less bought already.
It's not unusual for a band to offer standard and deluxe versions of an album on the day of release, although those extra tracks and "making of" DVDs usually come further down the line, when there's a whiff of having to fork out for something you've more or less bought already.
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BIFFy CLYRO’s beefy double album will APPEAL TO NEW FANS AND THEIR CORE LISTENERS. by alan morrison
With Biffy Clyro's Opposites, however, it's the 20-track beast of a double album that feels like the essential purchase, not the 14-track single-disc edition.
That said, the half-dozen songs missing from the standard release are the very ones I'd have chosen myself as first against the wall. They're the tracks on which the Ayrshire trio most blatantly play the commercial card, where you can hear bits of Foo Fighters and Green Day (and even a wee bit of Snow Patrol) in the writing. Everything else across the 78 minutes here, however, bears the distinctive stamp of a Kilmarnock edition.
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