Everything's Getting Older, by Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat

Everything's Getting Older

by Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat

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Craig O'Brien An absolutely beautiful album with so many great songs and lyrics but 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' just takes my breath away and leaves me on the verge of tears. I'd sell a kidney to get my hands on a vinyl copy.

Sam Gill Been a long time fan of this LP since first hearing it. Feels like the whole of human life is in here somewhere. Brilliant lyrics as ever and gorgeous piano and insturmentation. Does make me cry a lot though. Favorite track: The Copper Top.

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1.	Tasogare 01:58	buy track
2.	Let's Stop Here 04:19	buy track
3.	Cages 02:25	buy track
4.	A Short To The Moon 01:03	buy track
5.	Ballad Of The Bastard 02:42	buy track
6.	The Copper Top 05:22	buy track
7.	Glasgow Jubilee 03:57	buy track
8.	(If You) Keep Me In Your Heart 03:24	buy track
9.	Dinner Time 04:07	buy track
10.	The Sadness In Your Life Will Slowly Fade 03:17	buy track
11.	The Greatest Story Ever Told 04:19	buy track
12.	And So Must We Rest 02:24	buy track

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So here it is then, 'Everything's Getting Older': Aidan Moffat's first full length collaboration with Bill Wells and it is, in a nutshell, one of the best albums of his career. We've long been harping on about Aidan's skill as a lyricist but with this piece of work you get a real sense that he's really hit his stride: in the youth-obsessed bear pit that is the music industry nowadays, who better to ruminate on the ups and downs of approaching forty than Aidan who delivers a set of songs that are as funny, poignant, filthy and insightful as anything he's ever written.

Over and above Aidan's lyrics, it's the backdrop they're set against that makes this album so memorable: Bill Wells' subtly intricate brand of composing provides the perfect foil for Aidan's observational vignettes - the music for the album's understated centrepiece 'The Copper Top' is a profoundly moving piece of work. With the unsettling surrealism of 'Dinner Time' and the Philip Glass-esque urgency of 'Cages', 'Everything's Getting Older' provides a compellingly melancholy/funny/tender/faithful snapshot of what it feels like marching towards middle-age, casting backwards glances at your youth as you go...

A benchmark album for Aidan in our opinion and one which places him alongside such luminaries as Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Elvis Costello.

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released May 9, 2011

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