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How To Dress Well

The Anteroom

Domino Recording Company

Outubro 2018

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How To Dress Well brings his ‘Salt Song’

If you type How To Dress Well into the search bar on Google, the first few pages will surely be filled with GQ and Cosmopolitan advice on how to properly wear a formal suit or dress. But for those who are aware of the singer, whose real name is Tom Krell, How To Dress Well is about music that reaches the very end of soul searching experimental Pop and R&B. The 32 year-old singer from Colorado finally released his highly anticipated fourth album,‘Care’, in July after a long two year wait and much to his European fan’s delight, announced a small European Tour before continuing on back around the USA..

On November 21st, Krell, who came on after his guest star Ricky Eats Acid played a bass-filled, trance-ish introductory show, sang through a heart-wrenching two hour show at the Village Underground in Shoreditch. Krell might still not be well known but he sure as hell deserves to be. Playing in such intimate spaces meant fans stood side by side listening to How To Dress Well flawlessly reach his falsetto’s in his songs about heartbreak, death, lost childhoods, and of course, sex. The last time Tom Krell had a gig in London was in October 2014 in no other place than Heaven. He graced London again this year and brought back his lovely band of two guitarists, a keyboard player and an extremely shy drummer.

Tom Krell is easy to read, transitioning between each haunting track by telling hilarious stories about his relationships or sobering his audience up with a brutally honest dream he once had about his existence and his death. Not only does he sing his heart out for his fans but he connects with them on an emotional level no other artists have yet to do. Although he has never reached mainstream success, it didn’t stop him from gathering a rather large army of wholly dedicated fans who hang on to his every word. In his latest live show, he gave the audience exactly what they wanted and sang his entire new album, adding a few of his older songs from his debut Love Remains in between.

No matter how commercial he began to sound, he always brings it back with his familial falsetto that sends endless shivers down everyone’s spine. The audience watched in awe as he mixed his melancholic lyrics with R&B sounds. Several times throughout the show, Krell stopped to make jokes complaining how he hates feeling forced to dance at concerts even when the music is too slow, which is exactly what the audience was doing. Of course, it wouldn’t be a How To Dress Well concert without a ‘Your Mum’ joke before quickly diving into a song inspired by how he learned about death as a child during 9/11.

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How to Dress Well - Time Was Meant to Stay

My new favourite christmas-y non-christmas song. (+ US-only YT link)

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How to Dress Well - Suicide Dream 2

Love this man.

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