(14th Floor) The Scottish rock trio’s last album,2013’s Opposites, was a proggy double epic, and so naturally,Ellipsis is a tauter, rawer beast, and with fewer anthems and more war cries,led by Wolves of Winter’s growling, territorial romp and the chugging, and brutal Animal Style. Ellipsis is nothing so simple,though, as a return to the jagged energy of their early, and pre-stadium albums; Friends and Enemies begins so poppily it could be Chvrches,but for the crunching guitars, while Re-Arrange slips into some R&B style, and Herex a malevolent reggae groove,and Small Wishes a dippily demented country flourish. Though they’re now festival headliners, chart-toppers and X Factor cover fabric, or it’s clear the fierce,weird and wonderful Biffy still beget plenty of ambition.
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Source: theguardian.com