For the recording of last year’s world-beating A Celebration Of Endings album, Biffy Clyro decamped to Lotus Eater Studios in Santa Monica to work with producer Rich Costey. Tracking also took place at three separate studios in London. With the planet grounded because of The Disease, its companion piece, The Myth Of The Happily Ever After, was made at the trio’s home studio on a farm in Ayrshire. Despite the change in circumstances, there is no difference in the level of quality. And what a level it is. In the third decade of the 21st century, Biffy are operating at an altitude at which other bands can only dream. As has been the case since Puzzle, on first – and second, third and fourth – listens the trio’s new album delights and bamboozles in equal measure. Ther...