Cruel SummerBill Wells & Aidan Moffat

Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat

Having worked together back in 2003 on Arab Strap’s album ‘Monday At The Hug & Pint’, Bill and Aidan’s resolution to make an album together was certainly sincere if a little indeterminate when it came to delivery dates. Fitting then, that an album entitled ‘Everything’s Getting Older’ was pieced together at such a glacial straddling the demise of Arab Strap and two solo projects from Aidan.

That it was worth the wait however, is beyond question. ‘Everything’s Getting Older’ was an album of rare beauty and an album that confronts and dissects the onset of middle-age with so much truth and style, it can legitimately claim the status of “Instant Classic”. In June 2012 ‘Everything’s Getting Older’ picked up the inaugural Scottish Album Of The Year award.

Bill & Aidan’s follow-up ‘The Most Important Place In The World’ shifts the focus from the encroachment of age to the notion of the metropolis as femme a voluptuous siren promising opportunity and possibility. The tension between domesticity and devilry, temperance and temptation runs through a record which promises to be one of 2015’s most significant releases.