How To Dress Well photo credit Jesse Lirola
Acéphale is proud to announce the signing of Chicago based
musician How To Dress Well.
How To Dress Well is the stage name of songwriter and
producer Tom Krell. Krell's burgeoning career began in 2009 when, having just
moved from Brooklyn to Berlin, his songs began to emerge online via a hugely
prolific string of free digital EPs posted in anonymity on his blog. Combining
a gorgeous falsetto with fractured R&B-influenced beats, an instinctive ear
for subtly devastating melody and elements of noise, sound collage and
avant-garde composition, Krell's debut album Love Remainsoffered an
equally beautiful and troubling window into a startlingly realised artistic
imagination.
Praised for both its conceptual strength and immediate
emotional resonance, Love Remains duly garnered vast critical
acclaim and highlights such as "Ready For The World" and
"Decisions" saw Krell accredited with having given birth to a new,
narcotized strain of R&B that has since spawned a host of imitators.
Since Love Remains, Krell has toured the world,
recorded with an orchestra (the Just Once EP, with proceeds
going to raise awareness about mental illness) and, always prolific, written
and recorded a lot of new music - all whilst continuing work on a philosophy
doctorate.
Krell's new album Total Loss will see
release in North America through Acéphale in the Autumn of 2012 and includes
the beautiful "Ocean Floor For Everything" which can be downloaded
below.
Tour Dates
6/5 New York, NY - TBD
6/7 Toronto, ONT - The Drake
6/8 Montreal, QC - Il Motore
6/9 Brooklyn, NY - Public Assembly
6/13 Vancouver, BC - Waldorf Hotel
6/14 Portland, OR - Holocene
6/15 San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop
6/16 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
6/23 Calgary, AB - Sled Island Festival
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