Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions (Vinyl)

Only Revolutions is the fifth studio album by Scottish alternative rock band Biffy Clyro, released in 2009 on 14th Floor Records. As with its predecessor, Puzzle, the album was produced by Garth Richardson. Upon release, Only Revolutions was a critical and commercial success. It was nominated for the 2010 Mercury Prize, which is awarded annually for the best album in the UK or Ireland, and Rock Sound declared it third in its list of the 75 best albums of 2009. The album's cover was designed by Storm Thorgerson who as part of the design team 'Hipgnosis' was responsible for some of the most eye-catching record sleeves of the classic era of rock. Thorgerson said: "In thinking that the music was strong-minded yet lyrical persuaded us to think of material flapping in the wind like flags – the flags of a revolution. Not little flags or small bits of fabric, but enormous flags the size of a modest office block, which we affixed to a scaffold tower on the top of a hill on a windy day. The sound of the undulating material was affecting, let alone the bizarre shapes. The actual cover used red and blue flags to represent the sexes." The picture is clearly indebted to another of Thorgerson's works: the sleeve and video for Pink Floyd's "High Hopes".