Research fellow Tom Krell makes ghostly, lo-fi R&B under the moniker How to Dress Well, a name he stumbled upon and adopted as his own in a Minneapolis bookstore in 2004. As a little boy, Krell loved late-‘80s and early-‘90s R&B artists including Keith Sweat and Ready for the World, and since he was a late bloomer, he could sing along to songs by female vocalists well into his teens. However, in high school he played in various metal and hardcore bands, then switched to making drone-based music in his twenties. Krell made live experimental music as How to Dress Well by looping layers of his voice while he was living in Brooklyn, but it was when he moved to Cologne, Germany and collaborated with the likeminded artist cokc dokc that he began recording under that name. Krell blended his childhood love of R&B with the abstract noise of Black Dice, filtering it all through lo-fi recording techniques. He released the first How to Dress Well EP, The Eternal Love, in October 2009 as a free download via his blog, and more EPs followed at the rate of about one per month through April 2010. Krell signed to Lefse Records, which released his first official single, Ready for the World, in July 2010 and How to Dress Well's debut album, Love Remains, that October.

基本资料

国籍：美国

生日：1984年9月10日

演艺经历

HowTo Dress Well is Tom Krell, an ever-metamorphosing artist whosework has taken many forms over his now 13 year career. In 2024 Krell isdue to release his sixth studio LP.Krell came on the scene with the criticallylauded, lower-than-lo-fi,narco-soporific r&b of 2010's Love Remains; aremaster dropped in '23(Love Remains (Unworking Remaster)) with a remix LP to boot (WhatRemains (Remixes) feat. CFCF, Carmen Villain, etc.)2012's mournful Total Loss is an LP of gauzy sentimental pop thatsamples György Ligeti's études, Aphrodite's Child, and Forest Swordsand features a full orchestra.Krell hit a new level ofexposure and popularity with his '14 and '16records, "What ls This Heart?" (Deluxe Edition) and Care , respectively:the surprising capital-P pop music of these LPs shimmers withcontributions from CFCF, Kara-Lis Coverdale ,and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma (as well as Jack Antonoff)."WITH?" and Care represent Krell'sexperimental vision of"non-populist pop music"-sparking debateabout whether or not this is possible.On 2018's The Anteroom, Krell returned to the intensity and chaoticmeets-angelic psychedelia of his debut. Working closely with JoelFord, CFCF, and Ben Babbitt, Krell made a headyrecord of mangledand shredded techno elegies.Tipped for anyone who loves thesaccharine-melancholic sounds of Burial or the suicidal-mysticism ofCoil, this record is an overlooked stunner.