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favorite music of 2014

i love music a lot

it's one of the best, most pleasurable and rewarding things in this difficult world

per tradition, here are my favorites from 2014

xo tom

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fave artist

young thug under a vocal harmonizer on 'blood' completely blew my mind--- i think my favorite musical moment of 2014 hands down. 'olde english' is unreal--- toast to nick hook on that one. everything he did this year – from the amazing rich gang rec to endless features and mixtapes – was pure free expression and melodic adventure. what a legend! honored to live on earth w him.

favorite records

my fave lps of the year were DEF the grouper and the ian william craig records---- so extremely beautiful. when i hear music like this, i feel like my soul has a true home.

grouper ruins

ian william craig a turn of breath

rich gang tha tour part 1

klara lewis ett

ana caprix for seven nights this island is ours

dean blunt black metal

popcaan where we come from

arca xen

wreckmeister harmonies then it all came down

kyle bobby dunn fragments and compositions of and and the infinite sadness

pure x angel

doss s/t

maxwell august croy & sean mccann I

perfume genius too bright

RUNNING POINT for guitar and amplifier

mark mcguire along the way

ben frost aurora

jason lescalleet much to my demise

future honest

nicholas szczepanik not knowing

RVNES rest/relief

war on drugs lost in the dream

ricky eat acid three love songs

nguzunguzu perfect lullaby 2

kassem mosse workshop 19

leyland kirby V/Vm death of rave (a partial flashback)

also extremely thankful for records from pharmakon, twigs, david ashley, susanna & jenny hval, ariel pink, father, andy stott, and so many more.

also:

'try me' and 'big bank rolls', portable's 'surrender' (SO BEAUTIFUL) and 'window' by angel olsen (which i lovingly covered but she made me take it down)

also: i feel like i'll never forget the first time i heard OG maco on dj pharris' rush hour mix in chicago. that song is so ILL.

what else i know i'm forgetting sooooooooo much!

Berlin this weekend :+)

in Berlin for a very rare performance this weekend :+) 5 piece dance ensemble led by Brendan Fernandes, 5 piece orchestral ensemble led by Minna Rhee Choi :+) and we just went to a flower auctioneer this morning and arranged for 10,000+ flowers for the stage !!!

show is on sunday! buy tix and come i think it's gonna be really beautiful. feels like a really special moment for me. and watching the dancers rehearse as i write this--- it's such a stunning and beautiful performance, such extreme acts of tenderness and emphathic communication! love !!!

yours, tk

new mix, new songs, new show :)

i made a mix of songs for "What is this Heart?"--- it's called NO WORDS TO SAY.

songs that inspired the record, songs that resonate w me in the way the songs on "WITH?" resonate w you i hope.

tracklist = some meditative religious moments (tracy, JB, pure x, maxwell & sean, EN) + some pure-hearted pop moments (quan, EBTG, prince, ana caprix) = NO WORDS TO SAY

some cute previews of two songs from "What is this Heart?"--- comes out june 23/24 !!!! CAN"T WAIT!

also::: i'm playing a VERY special show in New York

on sale friday 10am :)

"what is this heart?"

xo tom

because you contain something

How To Dress Well - "What Is This Heart?" out June 23rd (UK, Europe) / 24th (USA) on Weird World / Domino www.whatisthisheart.com More info: http://smarturl.it/htdwwithwwnews Receive an instant mp3 download of ‘Repeat Pleasure’ and ‘Words I Don’t Remember' for all pre-orders: Pre-order the album on CD or Deluxe Limited Edition double LP http://smarturl.it/htdwwithww Pre-order digitally on iTunes http://smarturl.it/htdwwithitunes

#SoundCloud #How To Dress Well #experimental pop

"What Is This Heart?"

i have a new lp coming june 23/24. that's the album cover :+)

tracklist is like this

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)

Pre-order at iTunes Weird World

the deluxe lp is sooooo special and amazing, really excited to share it w uuuuu

xoxoxoxox <3

a new song for you called 'Words I Don't Remember' on whatisthisheart.com

if you could let your angels out i'd rescue one at a time <3

s/o to lorenzo senni synth work & rodaidh mcdonald production work on this tune :)

gonna be playing a lot of new material on these upcoming tour dates. excited to be going out w a proper full band for the first time ever--- featuring my longtime touring bandmate aaron, but also our friends larissa and justin (drummer 4 broken social scene). can't wait to see u

How To Dress Well//Forest Swords

March 2014 North American Tour <3

17 - San Francisco The Independent 18 - Los Angeles The Roxy 21 - New York Brooklyn Rough Trade 22 - Washington DC U Street Music Hall 24 - Philadelphia First Unitarian Church 26 - New York Le Poisson Rouge 27 - Boston TT The Bears 28 - Montreal Société Des Arts Technologiques 29 - Toronto Mod Club 30 - Chicago Lincoln Hall

March Tour w Forest Swords

ayyyyyy

me and the sweet king matthew b aka Forest Swords are going out on tour end of march :+) we've been friends for a few years now--- way back in 2010 he gave me a beat in chicago that eventually became 'Cold Nites' :+) so it's gonna be really fun to play music together for you all

gahhh i was really starting to miss singing for yall this is gonna be so nice!

How To Dress Well//Forest Swords

March 2014 North American Tour <3

see you soon! -tom

a lil present for yall <3 <3

i feel so blessed to have spent so much of 2013 singing for yall, so this is a lil xmas gift for u. love you all so much #honest. :+)

so, aaron and i made this lil recording on tour last year.

we started recording the music on a day off between shows in sydney and kuala lumpur. we did all the music in that hotel room in K.L. and then watched 'the fan' on tv it was tite. then like some months later i recorded the vocals in a hotel room in warsaw. i remember we had played a totally inspiring show in poznan the night before at the most beautiful gallery space and then got to warsaw i had just had a shower and there was a rihanna billboard out the window and i just felt GREAT. i went to the window, which was on the fourth story, and had a moment of really intense vertigo. then i laid down on the bed and i sang this song, which i love.

the beauty of bill callahan's original song is unmatched---- this is just an attempt to do honor to one of the greatest songs i've ever known.

(ps the whole thing was recorded on built-in laptop mics and isn't mastered or anything.)

this is a gift from me to u for your love and support. this is a toast to an amazing 2013 and to a v v v exciting 2014 :+) just watch :+)

love,

tom

more faves new faves

so i listed a bunch of albums i really liked from 2013 below. i was really excited since posting to discover huerco s.'s record 'colonial patterns' and to remember (i'm embarassed i forgot) how fucking GREAT kyle hall's 'the boat party' is. s/o to KMFH the boy!!!!!

i also (just tweeted that i) just recently discovered this record by mohammad called 'som sakrifis' it's sosososososo deep and beautiful. what a profound work.

still tho, nothing's better than 'rival dealer' :+)

love yall

some albums from 2k13 that i adored

to me it's an amazing time to be alive and in love w music

this is a list of a BUNCH of diff records i reallly admired this year --- i didn't love them all, bc frankly enjoyment is too simplistic a category to make sense of what, for instance, akos rozmann does to my head. but all of this music invigorated my spirit and like just straight up sent me.

without a doubt, burial's rival dealer is my fave record of 2k13. truant/rough sleeper already had him on the list, but this newest work is just such a total inspiration, both musically and personally. love love love.

- i am the center: private issue new age music in america, 1950-1990

- logos - cold mission

- lambkin & lescalleet - photographs

- dean blunt - the redeemer & stone island

- arca - &&&&&

- the range - nonfiction

- chief keef - bang pt 2

- sampha - dual

- asap ferg - trap lord

- koreless - yugen

- jefre cantu-ledesme - devotion

- colleen - the weighing of the heart

- lubomyr melnyk - corrolaries

- the necks - open

- oneohtrix point never - r plus seven

- fka twigs - ep2

- young thug - 1017 thug

- burial - rough sleeper/truant & rival dealer

- raum - event of your leaving

- akos rozmann - images of the dream and death

- drake - nothing was the same

- matana roberts - coin coin chapter 2

- rome fortune - beautiful pimp

- pure x - crawling up the stairs

- sean mccann - music for private ensemble

- deafheaven - sunbather

- mount eerie - pre-human ideas

- wolf eyes - no answer: lower floors

- grouper - the man who died in his boat

- kanye west - yeezus

can't wait to tell you about htdw stuff in the new year :+)

xoxoxox tom

RIP José Esteban Muñoz

"Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality. We have never been queer, yet queerness exists for us as an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future. The future is queerness’s domain. Queerness is a structuring and educated mode of desiring that allows us to see and feel beyond the quagmire of the present. The here and now is a prison house. We must strive, in the face of the here and now’s totalizing rendering of reality, to think and feel a then and there. Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds. Queerness is a longing that propels us onward, beyond romances of the negative and toiling in the present. Queerness is that thing that lets us feel that this world is not enough, that indeed something is missing. Often we can glimpse the worlds proposed and promised by queerness in the realm of the aesthetic. The aesthetic, especially the queer aesthetic, frequently contains blueprints and schemata of a forward-dawning futurity. Both the ornamental and the quotidian can contain a map of the utopia that is queerness. Turning to the aesthetic in the case of queerness is nothing like an escape from the social realm, insofar as queer aesthetics map future social relations. Queerness is also a performative because it is not simply a being but a doing for and toward the future. Queerness is essentially about the rejection of a here and now and an insistence on potentiality or concrete possibility for another world."

Jose Esteban Munoz RIP

WOOF. i played this set at a party in chicago abt a month ago and the floor almost caved in that was tite. xoxoxo love ya :+)

btw follow me on insta tkhtdw is my name () i'ma start posting exclusive shit there.

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total loss lyrics

people always ask for the lyrics for total loss --- well, here u go.

http://www.mediafire.com/?g28rlhqiomni48f

we will c each other soon

i needed to cancel a small handful of shows i was gonna do pretty soon – DC PHILLY VT BOSTON TORONTO – but i promise i will reschedule them, prob this spring. a few things happ'd: my touring bandmate broke his arm, i wanted to finish a new things, etc.

but i promise we will c each other soon

uh oh anxiety stress inexplicable sadness lazy can't focus oh i'm clicking on the internet again? FUCMYLIFE

so, ya this is basically a portrait of me today :') it's cool that my friend's art is inspiring that's dope. this is aaron who plays violin and electronics in live HTDW stuff with me btw.

Dream Theatre by Aaron Read

in love w u

this song is so good. makes me wanna be in panorama bar at like 10am on sunday morning sweaty af and just free and vibing :+)

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