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The Myth of The Happily Ever After

Biffy Clyro

The Myth of The Happily Ever After

Ninth release from the Scots alt.rock trio is a 'sister album' to the 2020 album A Celebration of Endings

ADM rating[?]

8.2

Label
Warner
UK Release date
22/10/2021
US Release date
22/10/2021
  1. 10.0 |   Kerrang!

    Deconstructive, deliberate and exquisitely designed, The Myth Of The Happily Ever After is the sound of a world-class band making truly world-class music. The only thing more exciting than every bar of its 11 songs is the promise of where Biffy Clyro might go next
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  2. 9.0 |   DIY

    Eleven tracks that brilliantly capture the turbulence and dysfunction of the past eighteen months
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  3. 9.0 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    Serves as an excellent and shockingly ambitious outing from a band that seemed to be trending in all the wrong directions not long ago. With this album, they’ve reclaimed control of their story
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  4. 9.0 |   musicOMH

    Responding to the turgid year we all experienced, the theme of blind faith couples with one of loss to craft an album of the magnitude they had threatened several times to deliver. That it happened by accident is as astonishing as it is comical, but it’s fact nonetheless
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  5. 8.0 |   All Music

    Biffy Clyro have long been a band of extremes, crafting esoteric art rock epics one minute and melodic punk singalongs the next -- all the while aiming for a broad, gladiator-esque level of catharsis. It's that grasping for a unified release and the creeping feeling that society may never break free of its constraints that drive much of The Myth of Happily Ever After
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  6. 8.0 |   Dork

    The moment you hit play, you’re off down their rabbit hole once more, and while it may still dodge that screeching mania of their earlier material, ‘The Myth Of The Happily Ever After’ stands up stronger than some of their later albums
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  7. 8.0 |   Vinyl Chapters

    Grows on you with each listen, and despite being a mishmash of throwaways, the themes woven throughout tie the whole thing together
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  8. 8.0 |   Clash

    It’s an exercise in catharsis, providing an accurate snapshot into the minds and mentality of the band certainly, but also the general public of the last year and a half
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  9. 8.0 |   NME

    What started out as leftovers from the Scottish rockers’ last record has turned out to be, ironically, perhaps their most cohesive album to date
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  10. 7.0 |   Gigwise

    A solid and occasionally captivating record
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