by
Bill Wells
- Record Label: Chemikal Underground
- Release Date: May 24, 2011
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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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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 10, 2011The net result, a tapestry through dark alleys and along river banks, makes for an entertaining listening journey.
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May 24, 2011Everything's Getting Older proving that, despite his wrinkles and back ache, Moffat's never going to shave his head/convert to Buddhism, and is still the scowling, contemptuous, but eloquent philanderer he was when he was tearing up the '90s--except now, he's a little more comfortable, and attacks using serene piano accompaniments.
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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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MojoMay 18, 2011Their orchestral meditations on aging are convincing and beautiful. [Jun 2011, p.96]
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May 4, 2011It's neither an easy nor a joyful listen, but tolerate the unrelenting gloom and it is never less than absorbing.
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May 4, 2011He calls love and life as it really is: occasionally sweet, rarely trouble-free and often so suicidally routine we could all become the man he speaks of on 'Ballad Of The Bastard'.
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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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Q MagazineMay 31, 2011Don'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]
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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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UncutMay 23, 2011Wells adds waves of beauty, and flurries of click-track neurosis to Moffat's dispatches from the fringes of self-disgust. [Jun 2011, p.91]
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