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Or in this case, dangerously overexcited.  Listening to Zane Lowe's BBC R*d** *n* show from Wednesday on iPlayer (time index 30m), which was apparently the first play of Biffy's new single...  and the second too, it seems.  Bit silly, given things like iPlayer, which mean we can replay it to death for ourselves, but it's fun to see he's that excited about it.  (Or maybe the show needed padded out that night, for all I know.)  To say nothing of how fissile things are getting at the Bifforum.  (I assume at BiffierThanThou they're still bemoaning they've-gone-too-commercial-by-half era, and working on that time machine back to2005.)

Not at all sure about El Si's claim it's the "heaviest thing they've ever written".  Bit more like one of the louder Puzzle tracks, with an extended borderline-cello-metal bridge/outro.  Not quite what I'd have expected from the various murky-sounding bootlegs I've heard -- they and the string quartet parted company for live shows at the SECC last December, sadly, for one thing, plus this seems to be a different edit for the single.  Definitely starting to get little quivers about seeing them again, later this year.