YMMV / Biffy Clyro

• Awesome Music: All over the place, from the post-hardcore of their first three albums to the big, ambitious sound of Puzzle, Only Revolutions and beyond.
• Broken Base:
  • Every album from Puzzle onwards has had a much poppier edge, and brought the band to a wider audience and attention in the mainstream, leading to cries of Sell Out! and it's popular, now it sucks (masquerading as They Changed It, Now It Sucks! in most cases) from older fans who aren't happy with their new fans who only listen to their later material. This intensified after the release of their seventh album, Ellipsis, which was hailed as a success by some but criticised as bland by others.
  • It happened again with the release of "Instant History" — the first single from A Celebration of Endings — which flirts with EDM. As it turned out, the rest of the album sounds nothing like that, retaining their melodic alternative rock sound from the previous albums.
• Epic Riff: "Saturday Superhouse", "The Captain", "Sounds Like Balloons", "Sunrise".
• I Am Not Shazam: Since Biffy Clyro sounds like a name, it would be easy to think that it's one person named that rather than a trio.
• Nightmare Fuel: "Tradition Feed". It's worse in the context of the album, as it's a hidden track preceded by 18 minutes of silence.
• Refrain from Assuming: That song that's been everywhere recently? It's called "Many of Horror", NOT "When We Collide" - no matter what Matt Cardle says.
• Signature Song: "57", their most well known song among fans, and a concert staple, though it's since been supplanted by "Mountains". Other well known songs include "Black Chandelier", "Many of Horror", and "Living is a Problem Because Everything Dies".
• Sweetness Aversion:
  • "Re-Arrange" can come across as overly sentimental. It doesn't help that Simon Neil maintains soft, high-pitched vocals throughout the entire song.
  • "Space" is also this as well, due of being an electropop love ballad. Depending on who you ask, its cheesiness can somehow border between Sweet Dreams Fuel and Narm Charm.
• Tear Jerker: "Machines", which describes Neil's feelings of hopelessness in the wake of his mother's death.
• Win Back the Crowd: Their radically different cover of David Bowie's "Modern Love" elicited a collective "Now that's more like it!" from fans who considered Ellipsis to be a step backwards. The same thing happened with the Balance, Not Symmetry album, thanks to its more progressive and experimental elements.