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10.0
26056
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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9.0
26401
9.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Wells and Moffat have created a stunning album
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9.0
26455
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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9.0
27883
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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8.5
26522
8.5 |
BBC
An album that’s undeniably tender
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8.0
26815
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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8.0
25754
8.0 |
The Skinny
Wells’ sometimes sad, sometimes joyous piano the perfect foil to Moffat’s poised, memorable musings
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8.0
25755
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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8.0
25899
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
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8.0
25904
8.0 |
Q
This meditation on ageing has moments as filthy as any in his X-rated past. Print edition only
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8.0
25906
8.0 |
Mojo
Wells and Moffat are harmonious foils. Print edition only
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7.0
25893
7.0 |
NME
He calls love and life as it really is
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7.0
25753
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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7.0
26519
7.0 |
Clash
A tapestry through dark alleys and along river banks, makes for an entertaining listening journey
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6.4
27614
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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6.0
30067
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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6.0
25986
6.0 |
The Independent
Not a party album
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6.0
26459
6.0 |
The Scotsman
Composer Wells matches the mood of Moffat's monologues with his elegant soundtrack
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