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9.1
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9.1 |
Pretty Much Amazing
Most interesting is the range of effects processes through which Krell runs his voice
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9.0
66977
9.0 |
Exclaim
Krell is a musical force not to be underestimated
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8.8
66955
8.8 |
Pitchfork
How to Dress Well’s modern masterpiece is conducted with the most eternal transparency — Krell asks “what is this heart” and lets you look right into his own
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8.5
67028
8.5 |
Earbuddy
An album which is dynamic as well as cohesive, to the extent where not listening to all tracks in order just feels plain wrong
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8.5
67070
8.5 |
Paste Magazine
There are still six months to go before we all start drawing up our end-of-the-year lists, but something tells me Krell won’t be feeling slighted come December
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8.0
67075
8.0 |
Fact
Krell’s most complete album to date
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8.0
66981
8.0 |
Q
An album constructed from the simplest of elements. Print edition only
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8.0
66853
8.0 |
Under The Radar
His most ambitious and addictive album to date
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8.0
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8.0 |
Slant Magazine
A collision between complex, elegant songwriting and soppy bedroom angst
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8.0
66857
8.0 |
Crack
The linchpin of this record is melody and vocal trickery
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8.0
66902
8.0 |
DIY
As the record progresses, it easy to hear that while 'Total Loss' offered a more refined and clear-cut take on his previously lo-fi, densely shrouded and emotion-fuelled music then 'What Is This Heart?' finally puts Krell fully centre stage
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8.0
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8.0 |
Time Out
R&B purists may disapprove, but Krell has shown they’re just bumping and grinding in the distant past
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Guardian
Almost every track on this hipster R&B album sounds slick with tears, as Krell sighs, coos and reminisces with keen abandon
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7.5
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7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
From its tentative first minutes to its fireworks-display resolution, the album luges down a clear, stable emotional narrative
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7.0
67329
7.0 |
musicOMH
If you carefully trim around the dross, you’re left with a stunning product and some phantasmagorical slivers of sonic mastery
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7.0
67067
7.0 |
Spin
It’s a marvel of engineering; there are staccato guitars, stuttering vocal samples, gasps of air, falsetto trills, and siren wails that morph into climactic and strikingly satisfying blasts
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7.0
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7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
It gets exhausting, all this honesty
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7.0
66855
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Feels like How To Dress Well exploring the musical fringes of what How to Dress Well can be
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7.0
67006
7.0 |
Clash
Less of a bold statement than its predecessor, with Tom Krell’s marriage of dry ice production and intimate crooning void of any great advancement from previous outings
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7.0
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7.0 |
Loud And Quiet
A collection of thrillingly modern love songs that carry soul as well as polish
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Music
On this record Krell’s wrapped his sometimes painfully guileless honesty in music beautiful enough to soften the blow
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6.0
66928
6.0 |
Mojo
Trading his experimentalism for a more traditional blue-eyed soul route. Print edition only
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6.0
66935
6.0 |
The Observer
Ehile there are a few great moments here (Words I Don't Remember, Pour Cyril), some judicious pruning of the 55-minute running time wouldn't have gone amiss
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6.0
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The Irish Times
You have to laud Krell’s musical experimentation, but the general air of glacial bleakness seems rather forced
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6.0
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6.0 |
The List
A third serving of intimate, largely downbeat, so-called ‘indie’ R&B from Tom Krell
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6.0
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6.0 |
Rolling Stone
Krell may be preoccupied with his failure to change, but this record makes it clear he's working on it
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6.0
67021
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
These days it’s just as easy to compose bedroom musical diary entries using a few loops and samples
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5.8
67013
5.8 |
A.V. Club
The disconnect between Krell’s pop leanings and his innate miserableness has never been greater
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5.0
67014
5.0 |
NME
He’s just another hipster with a laptop
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4.0
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4.0 |
PopMatters
If you absolutely love his sound you’ll probably still get enjoyment out of this as there truthfully aren’t many artists doing what he does. However, to the casual fans I would advise skipping this and re-listening to older work from How to Dress Well
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