"That Golden Rule" | |||||||
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Single by Biffy Clyro | |||||||
from the album Only Revolutions | |||||||
A-side | "That Golden Rule" | ||||||
B-side | "Prey Hey, Eye Lids, Time Jazz" | ||||||
Released | 23 August 2009 | ||||||
Format | CD, Digital download, vinyl | ||||||
Recorded | 2009 | ||||||
Genre | Alternative rock, post-hardcore, progressive metal | ||||||
Length | 3:57 | ||||||
Label | 14th Floor | ||||||
Producer | Garth Richardson | ||||||
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"That Golden Rule" is the second single to be taken from Scottish alternative rock trio Biffy Clyro's fifth studio album, Only Revolutions, released on 23 August 2009.
The band describe the song as a mixture of prog and stoner rock, citing that "[it's] like Kyuss and Tool playing with some Scottish freaks screaming over the top of it". It received its first radio play in early July 2009, on Zane Lowe's Hottest Record in the World slot on Radio 1.[1] The single debuted at #10 on the UK Single Chart on 30 August 2009[2]. The song is being used by Sky Sports in their coverage of Super League XVI in 2011.
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The video for That Golden Rule was shot in Chiswick House, West London. The video was released on NME's official website on 22 July 2009. The video has begun to receive some airplay on British rock television station Scuzz, and has been A-listed by BBC Radio 1.[3]
Storm Thorgeson's artwork for the single references the band's previous studio album, Puzzle, with a missing jigsaw piece resting in front of a sailor. The other man, sailing into the distance, appears to have a jigsaw shaped hole in his side - it is likely that this represents the man depicted on the front cover of Puzzle.
Thorgeson later confirmed this on his official website, stating:[4]
“ | Our design for Biffy was about two boats passing, the receding one representing the previous album [Puzzle] and steered by the puzzle man, into the distance, into the past; the approaching boat steered by the 'women-laden man' pushing forward in the rain, his troubled life etched on his face heading into an uncertain future, into the present, shot for real 'at sea' betwixt Skye and the Scottish mainland. | ” |
CD Single 14FLR38CD
7" Picture Vinyl 14FLR38
7" Orange Vinyl 14FLR38X
iTunes Digital EP
Chart (2009) | Peak position |
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UK Singles (The Official Charts Company)[5] | 10 |
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