Opposites is the sixth studio album by Scottish alternative rock band Biffy Clyro, which was released on 28 January 2013.

The song was released online along with a video consisting of material made of the album's recording in Los Angeles and the band's live shows.

On 22 September 2012, at the iTunes show in London, the band has already been playing five songs from Opposites: "Stingin' Belle", "Sounds Like Balloons", "The Joke's on Us", "Modern Magic Formula", and "Victory Over the Sun".

On 20 November, the band played "Black Chandelier" and "Opposite" on Later... with Jools Holland with guest support musicians Mike Vennart and Richard "Gambler" Ingram (ex.Oceansize, British Theatre) The single "Biblical" was featured first on Zane Lowe's show on BBC Radio 1 in the UK and on Gary Cool's Rock Dimension in S.A. On Sunday 3 February 2013, Opposites topped the UK Albums Charts, becoming Biffy Clyro's first number one album.

[13] The band played the first new song to later appear on Opposites, entitled "Joke's on Us", on 3 July 2011 at Milton Keynes, in what was set as one of their last gigs before heading to the studio.

[17] Simon Neil revealed the album's final title on 31 July 2012 on Zane Lowe's show on BBC Radio 1.

[20] Simon Neil said on Lowe's BBC show: "We wanted to make the first double album that you could enjoyably listen to from start to finish".

The band mentioned the feeling of alienation and resignation and the strains on relations with friends and families which were all induced by long years of touring with Only Revolutions.

[22] A day before the start of recording, Ben Johnston had a drunk accident and cut his ear, which made him acknowledge his drinking problem.

The next months spent in the LA studio, with the band isolated from the outside world, helped them recover emotionally and physically and "very very improve [their] way of life".

To reveal the cover on the band's website, Biffy Clyro asked the fans to tweet hashtag #biffyopposites on Twitter.

"[34] John Dingwall of Scottish tabloid The Daily Record awarded the album four stars out of five, and praised the band for making "it seem easy when it comes to intelligent, yet mainstream, rock music.

Awarding a score of seven out of ten, he summarised that "Opposites is not, as feared, an unedited expanse of rock-band mind splurge, but two albums' worth of well-constructed songs.

Indeed, Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph awarded the album three stars out of five and concluded "if you're already a Biffy Clyro fan, Opposites might be your idea of a masterpiece.

"[29] Alexis Petridis of The Guardian also awarded the album three stars, declaring that "Opposites may not be the career-defining masterpiece it's intended as, but it's certainly not the pompous disaster it could have been: it has failings, but not the ones you might expect.

"[30] Sister paper The Observer shared the same view, with Phil Mongredien noting that "across 80 minutes there's the sense they might have spread themselves too thinly.