Everything's Getting Older

One of the best albums this year.

I'm glad that I bought the CD, it made me appreciate the album more. With Moffat's Scottish accent, I can hardly make out of what he's saying or singing. However, words are crucial for this album, you just have to understand the lyrics in order to see the beauty of it. Every song is like a short story accompanied by Bill Wells' wonderful instrumentation. I understand, for a lot of people, this may not even be a good record. But, for me, I don't mind Moffat's terrible singing, I don't mind his story of immorality, I don't even mind his accent. I just love how he is so brutally honest (and funny at times), and the way he tells his stories... Of course, it goes without saying the genius of Bill Wells.

Tasogare
- a beautiful piano instrumental, a little jazzy, a little melancholic, a perfect way to set the mood for an album.

Let's Stop Here
- again, beautiful piano. this is a song for the middle-age. a man meets a woman, who he used to love and lust. now with a chance to solve his teenage mystery...

Cages
- with a sharp change of mood, Moffat's signature narration questions the ordinary life "are we ever truly free?", the song ends with a blunt thought: "freedom'a overrated anyway". is this one of the stage in life we'll have to go through?

A Short Song to The Moon
- "who needs the trouble of love, when you're still glowing above?"

Ballad of The Bastard
- the lyrics itself say it all. how bastards think, and what bastards do. you can easily think of it as Moffat's confessional song with frank truths. heartbreaking.

The Copper Top
- the heart of the album. both the music and the lyrics to bleed in to each other creating a whirlpool of dense, decaying sound, much like the decaying copper roof that reminds Moffat how death is closing in. undoubtedly, best song in the album.


Glasgow Jubilee
- interestingly, the ugliest song is put right behind the album's most beautiful song. this is typical Aidan Moffat, debauchery, a chain-reaction type of sexual encounters, between whore and solider, between boss and secretary, between husband and wife, between Moffat and groupie...etc. this is some powerful description of degradation.


(If You) Keep Me In Your Heart
- i don't really like this track... a creepy manifestation.

Dinner Time
- this is a creepy audiobook. a strange short story, so strange and short that it might have been written by Raymond Carver. with Well's jazzy piano, that fits the mood so well, creepy...

The Sadness In Your Life Will Slowly Fade
- "we've drank and fought and fucked our way up many lovelorn hills on our quest for ever deeper love and ever cheaper thrills"... the unflinching frankness, gets me every time.

The Greatest Story Ever Told
- my opinion, the second best song of the album. it links every song on the record together nicely. and i like the ending message: "we're all just links in a chain, and all life is finite, so use your time wisely, look after your teeth, and try not to hurt anyone. and remember: we invented LOVE, and that's the greatest story ever told."


And So Must We Rest
- a sweet lullaby. a good closing song for the album that takes us through life of mysteries, sadness, and enchantment.