Everything's Getting Older
| Everything's Getting Older | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Studio album by | |
| Released | 26 April 2011 |
| Recorded | 2011 |
| Length | 39:17 |
| Label | Chemikal Underground |
| Producers | Aidan Moffat, Paul Savage, Bill Wells |
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 82/100[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Clash | 7/10[3] |
| Cokemachineglow | 82%[4] |
| Drowned in Sound | 9/10[5] |
| Mojo | [6] |
| musicOMH |  [7] |
| Q | [8] |
| Record Collector | [9] |
| The Skinny | [10] |
| Uncut | [11] |
Everything's Getting Older is an album by Scottish musicians Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat. Mojo placed the album at number 17 on its list of "Top 50 albums of 2011".[12] On 19 June 2012 the album won the inaugural Scottish Album of the Year Award, beating artists such as Mogwai, Happy Particles and Remember Remember to the £20,000 prize.[13]
Track listing
[edit]- Tasogare – 1:58
- Let's Stop Here – 4:19
- Cages – 2:25
- A Short Song to the Moon – 1:03
- Ballad of the Bastard – 2:42
- The Copper Top – 5:22
- Glasgow Jubilee – 3:57
- (If You) Keep Me in Your Heart – 3:24
- Dinner Time – 4:07
- The Sadness in Your Life Will Slowly Fade – 3:17
- The Greatest Story Ever Told – 4:19
- And So Must We Rest – 2:24
References
[edit]- ↑ "Reviews for Everything's Getting Older by Bill Wells". Metacritic. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
- ↑ Raggett, Ned (26 April 2011). "Everything's Getting Older - Aidan Moffat / Bill Wells". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
- ↑ "Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – Everything's Getting Older". Clash. 10 May 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
- ↑ Bass, George (24 May 2011). "Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - Everything's Getting Older". Cokemachineglow. Archived from the original on 31 May 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
- ↑ Wheeler, Michael (9 May 2011). "Aidan Moffat and Bill Wells - Everything's Getting Older". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
- ↑ Their orchestral meditations on aging are convincing and beautiful. [Jun 2011, p.96]
- ↑ Welsh, David (2 May 2011). "Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – Everything's Getting Older". musicOMH. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
- ↑ Don't believe a word of it; this mediation on aging has moments as filthy as anything from his X-rated past. [Jun 2011, p.125]
- ↑ Atkins, Jamie (14 April 2011). "Everything's Getting Older - Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat". Record Collector. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
- ↑ Meiklem, PJ (18 April 2011). "Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – Everything's Getting Older". The Skinny. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
- ↑ Wells adds waves of beauty, and flurries of click-track neurosis to Moffat's dispatches from the fringes of self-disgust. [Jun 2011, p.91]
- ↑ "MOJO's Top 50 Albums Of 2011". Stereogum. 2 December 2011. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
- ↑ "Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat win Scottish Album of the Year". BBC. 20 June 2012. Retrieved 24 June 2012.
