Everything's Getting Older

Everything's Getting Older
Studio album by
Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat
Released26 April 2011 (2011-04-26)
Recorded2011
Length39:17
LabelChemikal Underground
ProducersAidan Moffat, Paul Savage, Bill Wells
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic82/100
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStar
Clash7/10
Cokemachineglow82%
Drowned in Sound9/10
MojoStarStarStarStar
musicOMHStarStarStarHalf star
QStarStarStarStar
Record CollectorStarStarStarStar
The SkinnyStarStarStarStar
UncutStarStarStarStar

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". 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.

Track listing

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

References

  1. ↑ "Reviews for Everything's Getting Older by Bill Wells". Metacritic. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  2. ↑ Raggett, Ned (26 April 2011). "Everything's Getting Older - Aidan Moffat / Bill Wells". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  3. ↑ "Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – Everything's Getting Older". Clash. 10 May 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Wheeler, Michael (9 May 2011). "Aidan Moffat and Bill Wells - Everything's Getting Older". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  6. ↑ Their orchestral meditations on aging are convincing and beautiful. [Jun 2011, p.96]
  7. ↑ Welsh, David (2 May 2011). "Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – Everything's Getting Older". musicOMH. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  8. ↑ 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]
  9. ↑ Atkins, Jamie (14 April 2011). "Everything's Getting Older - Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat". Record Collector. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  10. ↑ Meiklem, PJ (18 April 2011). "Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – Everything's Getting Older". The Skinny. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  11. ↑ 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]
  12. ↑ "MOJO's Top 50 Albums Of 2011". Stereogum. 2 December 2011. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
  13. ↑ "Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat win Scottish Album of the Year". BBC. 20 June 2012. Retrieved 24 June 2012.