Biffy Clyro appear to tease new album with cryptic post
It's highly likely their new album is on the way!
Last updated 10th Feb 2020
Scottish rock titans Biffy Clyro have started cryptically teasing something on social media.
Shortly after 9am this morning (Monday 10th February) an intriguing blank light blue image was posted to the trio’s social media channels.
Scant on information, there is no text to accompany the picture and Biffy Clyro’s profile pictures on Instagram and Twitter were also changed to the same blue image.
Completing the full house, Biffy's official website has simply been replaced with a light blue screen, displaying no other content, or even links.
Although there’s no official word from Biffy Clyro’s camp, it’s highly likely that they’re teasing new music. Either that, or they’re launching their own paint colour range.
Speaking to Absolute Radio backstage at The Q Awards last October, singer Simon Neil confirmed Biffy Clyro’s new studio album “will be out at the start of next year (2020).”
Simon also said they hoped to release a single before the end of 2019, however this didn’t materialise.
Commenting on the Q Awards gig at The Roundhouse, Simon enthused: “We had probably our favourite show in a couple of years actually, it was unreal.
“We’ve been in the studio for the past couple of months so to come out of hibernation and kind of reconnect with people was incredible. It was our first indoor show for two years, which I can’t quite believe, so yeah the intensity was quite different but loved it!”
Last May, Biffy Clyro released the soundtrack album ‘Balance, Not Symmetry’ for the British-American crime movie of the same name.
The raucous lead single hopefully bodes well for some classic Biff riffs on the new album!
Their last ‘proper’ studio album, ‘Ellipsis’, came out back in July 2016 and stormed straight in at number one on the Official Album Chart. It spawned the singles ‘Wolves of Winter’, ‘Animal Style’, ‘Re-arrange’ and the Gary Lightbody co-penned ‘Howl’.
Will Biffy Clyro tour the new album?
Biff's last run of dates, saw them headline the Isle of Wight Festival, and then play a small handful of shows back in Autumn 2019. Since then, they've been buried away in the studio, with no other live performances.
Aside from a trio of German festivals in Germany in August 2020, and Radio 1's Big Weekend in Dundee, there has been no mention of a tour so far.
This is sure to change when they release the upcoming album, so it will be interesting to see where their tour will take them.
Undoubtedly, as a band who have headlined Download Festival in the past, there will be talk of them popping up on the UK festival schedule, with the so-far eerily quiet Reading and Leeds Festivals seeming a likely headline slot.
When they do inevitably announce live dates, rest assured, Kerrang! Radio Tickets will be the place to grab your tickets!
Mon the Biff!