{"id":9382,"date":"2014-08-19T15:17:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T15:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=9382"},"modified":"2014-08-19T15:17:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T15:17:40","slug":"how-to-dress-well-what-is-this-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/08\/19\/how-to-dress-well-what-is-this-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Dress Well &#8211; \u201cWhat Is This Heart?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2014\/08\/19\/how-to-dress-well-what-is-this-heart\/homepage_large-bc2dad80\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9383\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9383\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/homepage_large.bc2dad80-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"homepage_large.bc2dad80\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How to Dress Well is the musical project of Tom Krell, a former PhD philosophy student with an elegant falsetto and a fixation on difficult emotions \u2013 especially those dealing with loss, death and heartbreak.<!--more--> In 2009 Krell began issuing digital EPs and singles until the release of his first record, <i>Love Remains<\/i>, a year later. His debut full-length was an ambient\/electronic outgrowth of the (dubious) PBR&amp;B genre, a classification meant to encompass contemporary acts like the Weeknd, Frank Ocean and Miguel. Now on his third album, <i>\u201cWhat Is This Heart?\u201d <\/i>\u2013 in quotes like Bowie\u2019s <i>\u201cHeroes\u201d<\/i> \u2013 Krell has opted for a more traditional pop aesthetic that sees the evolution of a previously minimalist sonic palette into one with more rhythm and less fuzz. What hasn\u2019t changed, though, is the songwriting. Krell\u2019s devotion to airy vocals about relationships, passion and deceased best friends shifts from ruminative to painfully fatalistic. On \u201cRepeat Pleasure,\u201d a standout single, stirring chants about lost love build to a powerful chorus over staccato guitar: \u201cOh if you want it, guess you want it all baby\/But once you got it you want something else\/Even if you\u2019re holding out for something unchanging\/Yeah, once you got it, you want something else.\u201d A balanced pop record with R&amp;B inclinations <i>\u201cWhat Is This Heart?\u201d <\/i>achieves unlikely clarity amid deeply personal reflections. By opening a window into his intimate, subconscious spaces, Krell guides listeners to confront their own innermost being. The results are unashamedly beautiful. (Domino\/Weird World, <a href=\"http:\/\/dominorecordco.com\" target=\"_blank\">dominorecordco.com<\/a>) <b>Harrison Samphir<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Dress Well is the musical project of Tom Krell, a former PhD philosophy student with an elegant falsetto and a fixation on difficult emotions \u2013 especially those dealing with loss, death and heartbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}