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How To Dress Well | New Confusion

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Artist: How To Dress Well

Album: Total Loss

Songwriter: Tom Krell

Released: 14 September 2012

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How to Dress Well Interview

Tom Krell

Photo by Zackery Michael

How to Dress Well has crafted a reputation as one of America’s most original, focused and beguiling young songwriters. Merging ever surprising production choices and aesthetic detail with a sensual but sincere R&B influence and a deep, grounded emotionality, Tom Krell has steadily established himself as one of the most influential figures in contemporary experimental pop music. How To Dress Well’s latest captivating release titled ‘The Anteroom’ is co-produced by Joel Ford (Ford & Lopatin, Airbird) and this record plays as a single continuous piece of 21st century psychedelic music and features Tom Krell’s most bewitching sound experimentation to date. Moreover, the stories Krell sings on this record – some biographical, many from the most knotted corners of human life – are deeply personal and human(e). 'The Anteroom' - with its blizzardous electronic noise, fragile melodies and poignant poetry - reclaims the experimental core of the HTDW project… We talk to Tom about literature, food on tour and basketball…

TSH: How would you sum up the energy and emotion as you started work on ‘The Anteroom’?

Tom: I had a lingering, incessant uncanny feeling as I began work on this record. I felt very isolated and strange and, frankly, very disoriented. I had gone through massive changes in my life, was in the midst of massive transformations, and found myself… suspended.

TSH: What was it like for you to delve into loneliness and make a very confessional record?

Tom: I mean, it was powerful to make this record. But I would not call this record precisely ‘confessional’ – nevertheless, this was an intense one to make. I think I owe a lot to Joel Ford, with whom I worked on the record, and my friends and loved ones for supporting me through a chaotic and profound artistic and psychological process. They held space for me to dive very deep.

TSH: Were you looking to present certain features of this record to result in joy, release and freedom?

Tom: Not really. I was looking to relate, alternately, consuming fear and saving tenderness. Ultra chtonic and utlra angelic. I was trying to express the unfreedom of the present, and the miraculous persistence of (possible) love in the midst of all this hell!

TSH: Being a fan of literature, did you read much in the lead-up to this release?

Tom: Ya! I read a lot of poetry and mystical stuff – heaps of Franck Andre Jamme, Maggie Nelson, Anne Sexton, Rene Char, Blanchot, Villaurutia, Clarice Lispector, Gaby Losoncy (and lots of other stuff from Amphetamine Sulphate).

TSH: What was the process like in forming ‘A Memory, The Spinning of a Body • Nonkilling 2’?

Tom: Low key. It was one of the easier songs on the record. It came together with great ease. This lyric/concept “if no one had entered the room, then who closed the door?” really just launched the song into being.

TSH: Moreover, how did you settle on your vocal direction for ‘Love Means Taking Action’?

Tom: I just started singing over the Croatian Amor song of the same name – and the song is very prosaic and repetitive, almost like an incantation. It came quite easily.

TSH: You’ve mentioned that you feel like you’ve finally actually hit your stride – do your creative endeavours make you feel more positive than ever?

Tom: Creating the work, yes. However, the rest of this work – the ‘industry’ portion of it – is really quite dreadful! However, I feel extremely lucky to be able to share my work with people all over the world.

TSH: How pleasing has it been to have so many shared moments with audiences on your extensive tours?

Tom: Ya, see – this is priceless and so important.

TSH: Does playing with mangled technology still feel really important to you with your music?

Tom: Yes, absolutely.

TSH: You’ve reflected on feeling like we’re so separate in reality, with this in mind, do you feel like today’s fast paced digital age is kind of like information overload at times?

Tom: “We already know too much – we have an excess of information, but we have no idea what to do with it.” – Paul B Preciado

TSH: What did you make of the movie Herditary?

Tom: Middling movie. Brilliant premise, plot ends with a relatively cheap horror copout – I’d love to see a serious movie about the horror of heredity.

TSH: How was your birthday spent recently?

Tom: Oh, I had the best one yet I think. I put a song out, went for an AMAZING meal (top 3 of my life), and spent time with so many beautiful friends in LA.

TSH: Also, on your recent European tour, which places had the best veggie options?

Tom: Food in Vilnius was amazing. We also ate at a truly elite vegan restaurant in Stockholm.

TSH: Who are your top 3 Denver Nuggets players of all-time?

Tom: Anotnio McDyess, Chauncey Billups and Nikola Jokić.

TSH: Finally, what’s led you to feeling most rejuvenated with your musical ventures in recent times?

Tom: Creating honestly and not thinking about commerce at all. Paradoxically, this is also what has brought me quite a bit of difficulty.

How To Dress Well - “Nonkilling 6 | Hunger”

How To Dress Well - “Body Fat”

The Anteroom

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How To Dress Well

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How to Dress Well at Under Bron, Stockholm.

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How To Dress Well - Nonkilling6 / Hunger

Part I: Nonkilling 6 Winter raging The color gone, hands were blue and cold A recitation I slowly read you Tomb for Anatole: He was eight years old A dead child is no Occasion for a song Where did I go wrong?

Part II: Hunger [Verse 1] When they say face facts, disobey that There’s singing still left to be done They still can’t name that, fragrant Wind rolling off a corpse Until the day that you play back the tape that you made Record your mother saying every word Pronounce the gray that The rains had brought over the sun Like a veil to suffocate the earth

[Bridge] But hunger is first

[Chorus] And I could feel in my body time rushing in The way nothing must have felt when something started to begin The way all of your sympathy taught me something was wrong Secret disfortune, this cold, slow momentum

[Verse 2] I remember snow, Saw it fall Watched a child learn, the word ‘nightfall’ And sleep because it’s sad, or not sleep at all I learned the word "forever" from Demerol I let my body go: I feed the thaw Like jumping off a cliff, but never falling A dust finer than smoke A memory in my throat A flame that pulses cold A faraway echo ...

[Chorus] And I could feel in my body time rushing in The way nothing must have felt when something started to begin. The way all of your sympathy taught me something was wrong: Secret disfortune, this cold, slow momentum

And I could feel in my body time rushing in The way nothing must have felt when something started to begin. The way all of your sympathy taught me something was wrong: Secret disfortune, this cold, slow momentum

[Outro] I remember snow, Saw it fall Watched a child learn, the word ‘nightfall’ And sleep because it’s sad, or not sleep at all I learned the word "forever" from Demerol I let my body go: I feed the thaw

12/09/2018

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How To Dress Well: “Nonkilling 6 | Hunger”

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November 30th seems like a very long wait from now, but we’ll definitely be counting down the days to that fateful evening, when we’ll get to see How To Dress Well headline the Popscene stage in San Francisco and marvel over the prolific Colorado artist’s ambient pop and experimental R&B once again. I knew that news of a tour must mean new music on the horizon. Sure enough, How To Dress Well, or Tom Krell, has unleashed a magnificent new set of songs named Land Of The Overflowing Urn after his much too long two year’s of silence. Included on this two-track EP of sorts is a progressive array named ‘Vacant Boat (shred) | Nonkilling 1 | The Anteroom | False Skull 1′, a mighty display consisting of Krell’s creamy falsettos and his avant-garde music. Astoundingly produced, the mini-collection of music melds intensive electronica with dreamy ethereal left-field R&B pop. I can only imagine how this glitchy echoing, effervescent swirling piece will be live. Aside from that San Francisco show, How To Dress Well will be traveling across Europe and the U.S. during his fall tour.  Tickets for the tour can be found via the How To Dress Well website, here.