Everything's Getting Older

Everything's Getting Older
Studio album by Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat
Released	26 April 2011 (2011-04-26)
Recorded	2011
Length	39:17
Label	Chemikal Underground
Producer	Aidan Moffat, Paul Savage, Bill Wells

Professional ratings

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

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 . 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.