Taken from Pitchfork, "Following his excellent 2012 album Total Loss, Tom Krell is back with a new How to Dress Well album. "What Is This Heart?" is out June 24 in the U.S. and June 23 internationally via Weird World. Previously, Krell shared "Words I Don't Remember". Check out "Repeat Pleasure" above.
The album was produced by Rodaidh McDonald (Vampire Weekend, The xx, Savages, Adele). It will be available as a double LP and deluxe double LP. The deluxe version comes with a 28-page booklet and a bonus one-sided 10" featuring two exclusives: “Let U Know” and “So Easy for Pleasure.”
Tracklist What Is This Heart
1. 2 Years On (Shame Dream)
2. What You Wanted
3. Face Again
4. See You Fall
5. Repeat Pleasure
6. Words I Don’t Remember
7. Pour Cyril
8. Precious Love
9. Childhood Faith In Love (Everything Must Change, Everything Must Stay The Same)
10. A Power
11. Very Best Friend
12. House Inside (Future Is Older Than The Past)
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My review (a la FFWD weekly): Tom Krell, better known as How To Dress Well, has a new album offering plenty of cheesy synths, combined with super chill beats, a healthy dose of acoustic instruments and a consistently sultry vocal delivery. Krell throws in some deep bass whoomps and soaring orchestral arrangements to keep listeners on their toes. The entire album is packed with these subtle surprises.
“What Is This Heart?” will push the comfort zones of anyone expecting a straightforward genre-stable album. Despite the intriguing style-straddling moves, the album seems far too long. It lasts a reasonable 55 minutes, but it could easily be halved to highlight the best beats, like on “Face Again,” “Repeat Pleasure” and “Very Best Friend,” peppered with some of the more moving lyrical pieces, like “Pour Cyril” and “2 Years On (Shame Dream),” and one that takes an experimental angle, like “Childhood Faith In Love.”
Despite the complaint, How To Dress Well knows the value of offering some excellent surprises, with crazy tempo turnarounds, string sections, weird vocal effects and emotionally powerful simplicity. Some parts are sinfully cheesy pop, but other parts offer an inimitable style. Dropping the needle back on those choice tracks, though, it’s hard to stay displeased for long.