We here at Acoustic Sound Hole can’t help but fall ever so slightly weak at the knees at a beautiful Scotsman who can sing, so Biffy Clyro have always ticked all the right boxes for us.
Machines just so happens to be on one of our personal all-time favourite albums too, so it’s only right this song gets shared on this list.
From the band’s 2007 album Puzzle, Machines is the final track on a record that tells a profound story of personal development.
Dealing with the passing of his mother, lead vocalist Simon Neil penned the album as a way of coping with losing such a momentous figure in his life.
Although Puzzle, the band’s third album, isn’t acoustic based, Neil chose to end the record with a last memento to his mother who was a fan of country and folk music, where this song takes its influences from.
Machines is a stunning way to finish an exquisite album, with its resolute tones of fore longing and quiet desperation, after the upheaval and structured outpour of previous tracks.
Everything about this song is brilliant, from the delicately selected chords leading to orchestral backing to the sincerity in Neil’s voice as he projects these lyrics that resound so heavily with him.
Puzzle reached No. 2 in the first week of its release and is still the highest peaking Biffy Clyro album to date, despite the massive success of their 2009 follow-up, Only Revolutions.
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