Biffy Clyro unleash new song 'Balance, Not Symmetry' ahead of new album tomorrow
Typically epic stuff
Last updated 16th May 2019
Scottish rock bastions Biffy Clyro have premiered new song ‘Balance, Not Symmetry’ lifted from their Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for the film of the same name.
A typically rousing Biffy banger, ‘Balance, Not Symmetry’ is the opening song on the trio’s 17-track soundtrack album, which is released tomorrow (17th May). A vinyl edition follows on Friday 26th July.
The film Balance, Not Symmetry will receive its premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Sunday 23rd June 2019.
Watch the ‘Balance, Not Symmetry’ video, which intersperses footage of Biffy performing live with clips from the film, here:
Directed by Jamie Adams from a screenplay by Adams and Biffy Clyro’s very own Simon Neil, principal filming on Balance, Not Symmetry began in October 2018.
The plot synopsis reads: “Filmed in Scotland during Autumn, the ‘Balance, Not Symmetry’ film follows American student Caitlin (Laura Harrier) after her father’s funeral, leaving her grieving mother (Kate Dickie) behind to return to her third-year studies at the Glasgow School of Art. There she juggles her grief and end-of-year presentation with meeting a new guy, Rory (Scott Miller), and a rupture in her relationship with her housemate and BFF Hannah (Bria Vinaite). Can she again find balance in her turbulent life?”
Simon Neil says: "On meeting Jamie, we realised early on that we'd both had to deal with grief at a relatively young age and so it was interesting to talk about how we'd both dealt with it and the effect it had on us - and this is the main crux of the film, delving into the lonely world of grief and loss and coming out the other side."
The album track-listing is as follows:
1) Balance, Not Symmetry
2) All Singing and All Dancing
3) Different Kind of Love
4) Sunrise
5) Pink
6) Colour Wheel
7) Gates of Heaven
8) Fever Dream
9) Navy Blue
10) Tunnels and Trees
11) Plead
12) The Naturals
13) Yellow
14) Touch
15) Jasabiab
16) Following Master
17) Adored