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Everything's Getting Older

Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat

Everything's Getting Older

Collaboration between the former Arab Strap vocalist Aiden Moffat and multi-intrumentalist and fellow Scot Bill Wells

ADM rating[?]

7.6

Label
Chemikal Underground
UK Release date
09/05/2011
US Release date
24/05/2011
  1. 10.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    By the end you're left stunned in admiration. Hell, there's even a redemptive arc. Amazing
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  2. 9.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Wells and Moffat have created a stunning album
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  3. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    The pair achieve a brilliantly exotic yet bleak record with quirky avant-garde asides, moments of profound sadness, some drunken silliness
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  4. 9.0 |   No Ripcord

    This is perhaps his most beautiful work to date; its vulgarity is restrained but a sense of humour remains, and Wells and Moffat reach new emotional heights
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  5. 8.5 |   BBC

    An album that’s undeniably tender
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  6. 8.0 |   Scotland on Sunday

    Everything's Getting Older is mariachi jazz and beat poetry declaring Scotland's cultural independence. The mood is of ageing gracefully with a wicked glint in the ey
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  7. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    Wells’ sometimes sad, sometimes joyous piano the perfect foil to Moffat’s poised, memorable musings
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  8. 8.0 |   The List

    It’s a career-high shared, as Wells lays down warm, jazzy arrangements and Moffat muses with trademark candour
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  9. 8.0 |   Uncut

    He [Wells] adds waves of beauty, and flurries of click-track neurosis to Moffat's dispatches from the fringes of self-disgust. Print edition only

  10. 8.0 |   Q

    This meditation on ageing has moments as filthy as any in his X-rated past. Print edition only

  11. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Wells and Moffat are harmonious foils. Print edition only

  12. 7.0 |   NME

    He calls love and life as it really is
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  13. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    It's neither an easy nor a joyful listen, but tolerate the unrelenting gloom and it is never less than absorbing
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  14. 7.0 |   Clash

    A tapestry through dark alleys and along river banks, makes for an entertaining listening journey
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  15. 6.4 |   Pitchfork

    Where Everything's Getting Older loses focus is in the desire of the two players to constantly canter through great stylistic shifts
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  16. 6.0 |   Rave Magazine

    Probably not enough to warrant repeated listens, but I’ve learned to never underestimate the tolerance for repeated misery of Arab Strap fans
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  17. 6.0 |   The Independent

    Not a party album
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  18. 6.0 |   The Scotsman

    Composer Wells matches the mood of Moffat's monologues with his elegant soundtrack
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