How To Dress Well - Total Loss mp3

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• Arranged By [Strings] – Minna Choi (tracks: A5, B3)
• Mastered By – Guy Davie
• Mixed By – Rodaidh McDonald
• Producer – Ezekiel Honig (tracks: A1), Forest Swords (tracks: A2), Rodaidh McDonald, Tom Krell
• Written-By – Ezekiel Honig (tracks: A1), Forest Swords (tracks: A2), Tom Krell

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Total Loss is the second studio album by American musician How to Dress Well. It was released in September 2012 on Acephale Records in North America and Weird World Records in other regions. The track Cold Nites, which was co-written and co-produced by Forest Swords, was released as a single. On his second How to Dress Well album Total Loss, Tom Krell abandons much of the murky mystery of his debut, Love Remains, undescoring the R&B roots of his music. It's a bold move, one that puts him in territory closer to the xx than where he was before, and one that sometimes highlights his shortcomings. When I Was in Trouble introduces Krell's new aesthetic, bathing his falsetto vocals - now freed of the static and distortion that cloaked them on his debut - in electronics that manage to be gloomy and glowing at the same time on Struggle, reverb surro. How To Dress Wells debut was a sleek, immersive experience awash in waves of texture and a moody intensity. Its biggest draw for some and, in my eyes, largest setback was the heavy sense of anonymity that hid Krells soulful falsetto beneath layers of lo-fi aesthetic. Saturated and faraway, Love Remains was the perfect precursor to Total Loss. A bold move, no doubt- but Total Loss is an album completely enveloped in abandonment and loss, which isnt surprising considering the title. Working on the album, inspiration was drawn from the bereavement of a close friend as well as a trying long-distance relationship. Fortunately, How to Dress Well's malleability prevents Krell from getting too ponderous. If you found his orchestral direction on last year's Just Once promising, there's the string interlude of World I Need You, Won't Be Without You Proem which is reprised on the emotive centerpiece Talking to You. It Was U pulls a similar deception, as Krell's accumulating harmonies disguise an imploding relationship over joyous new jack swing. The rhythmic backbone of Total Loss's second half slackens a little, which can make the album feel frontloaded on the first few passes. On his second full-length album as How To Dress Well, singer and producer Tom Krell shows some stellar. I'm a flawed, opinionated human being. Douse me in kerosene and light me ablaze. How to dress well- total loss, weird world, 2012, contemporary r&b, dream POP, ambient to the haunting second album from How to Dress Well and let us know your Loss. How To Dress Well - Total Loss 2012. To favorites 3 Download album. Listen album. How To Dress Well. Total Loss Q&A. Label Weird World Record & Domino Recording Company. Design By Josh Clancy & Travis Stevens. Producers Ezekiel Honig, Forest Swords, How to Dress Well & 1 more. Writers Forest Swords, How to Dress Well, Janet Jackson & 2 more. Total Loss uses the common tools of pop expression- four-minute songs, autobiography, choruses, confession- to create a work of poignant and devastating art. Full Review. Tom Krell, the songwriter and producer known as How to Dress Well, makes a kind of electronic R&B-influenced mood music that would make the perfect indie film soundtrack. Take that and add in his melancholic falsetto and his new album Total Loss sounds like the résumé of an aspiring film scorer. Hear How to Dress Well's new cinematic album here