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Bill Wells
- Record Label: Chemikal Underground
- Release Date: May 24, 2011
- Summary: Arab Strap's Aidan Moffat and composer Bill Wells collaborated for more than eight years before releasing their debut album.
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- Record Label: Chemikal Underground
- Genre(s): Spoken Word, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock
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Jun 7, 2011This is perhaps his most beautiful work to date; its vulgarity is restrained but a sense of humour remains, and Wells and Moffat reach new emotional heights.
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May 9, 2011As with some diseases, the album gets worse before it gets better, but by the end you're left stunned in admiration. Hell, there's even a redemptive arc. Amazing.
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May 9, 2011Wells and Moffat have created a stunning album that assures us of the death and decay that is to come, but equally, they tell us, as long as we are still around, there is life to be lived, and music like this to be heard.
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May 9, 2011Throughout, Wells' arrangements are excellently matched with Moffat's lyrics and performances song for song.
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MojoMay 18, 2011Their orchestral meditations on aging are convincing and beautiful. [Jun 2011, p.96]
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May 10, 2011It's easy to revel in Moffat's bleak wordplay and his everyman observations, but behind the black clouds and bitterness there are reminders of love and tempered optimism, encompassed by The Greatest Story Ever Told.
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May 4, 2011Not a party album.
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