How to Dress Well is the stage name of ethereal R&B songwriter and producer… Read Full Bio ↴How to Dress Well is the stage name of ethereal R&B 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, Love Remains offered a beautiful window into a startlingly fully realized 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 an EP 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. September 4th 2012 will see him share this new body of work with the world with the release of Total Loss, his new album.
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 an EP 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. September 4th 2012 will see him share this new body of work with the world with the release of Total Loss, his new album.
Hunger
How to Dress Well Lyrics
Winter raging
The color gone, hands were blue and cold
A recitation I slowly read you Tomb for Anatole
He was eight years old
A dead child is no
Occasion for a song
Where did I go wrong?
When they say face facts, disobey that
There's singing still left to be done
They still can't name that, fragrant
Wind rolling off a corpse
Until the day that you play back the tape that you made
Record your mother saying every word
Pronounce the gray that
The rains had brought over the sun
Like a veil to suffocate the earth
But hunger is first
And I could feel in my body time rushing in
The way nothing must have felt when something started to begin
The way all of your sympathy taught me something was wrong
Secret disfortune, this cold, slow momentum
I remember snow
Saw it fall
Watched a child learn, the word 'nightfall'
And sleep because it's sad, or not sleep at all
I learned the word "forever" from Demerol
I let my body go, I feed the thaw
Like jumping off a cliff, but never falling
A dust finer than smoke
A memory in my throat
A flame that pulses cold
A faraway echo
And I could feel in my body time rushing in
The way nothing must have felt when something started to begin
The way all of your sympathy taught me something was wrong
Secret disfortune, this cold, slow momentum
And I could feel in my body time rushing in
The way nothing must have felt when something started to begin
The way all of your sympathy taught me something was wrong
Secret disfortune, this cold, slow momentum
I remember snow
Saw it fall
Watched a child learn, the word 'nightfall'
And sleep because it's sad, or not sleep at all
I learned the word "forever" from Demerol
I let my body go: I feed the thaw
The color gone, hands were blue and cold
A recitation I slowly read you Tomb for Anatole
He was eight years old
A dead child is no
Occasion for a song
Where did I go wrong?
When they say face facts, disobey that
There's singing still left to be done
Wind rolling off a corpse
Until the day that you play back the tape that you made
Record your mother saying every word
Pronounce the gray that
The rains had brought over the sun
Like a veil to suffocate the earth
But hunger is first
And I could feel in my body time rushing in
The way nothing must have felt when something started to begin
The way all of your sympathy taught me something was wrong
Secret disfortune, this cold, slow momentum
I remember snow
Saw it fall
Watched a child learn, the word 'nightfall'
And sleep because it's sad, or not sleep at all
I learned the word "forever" from Demerol
I let my body go, I feed the thaw
Like jumping off a cliff, but never falling
A dust finer than smoke
A memory in my throat
A flame that pulses cold
A faraway echo
And I could feel in my body time rushing in
The way nothing must have felt when something started to begin
The way all of your sympathy taught me something was wrong
Secret disfortune, this cold, slow momentum
And I could feel in my body time rushing in
The way nothing must have felt when something started to begin
The way all of your sympathy taught me something was wrong
Secret disfortune, this cold, slow momentum
I remember snow
Saw it fall
Watched a child learn, the word 'nightfall'
And sleep because it's sad, or not sleep at all
I learned the word "forever" from Demerol
I let my body go: I feed the thaw
Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY, WARP MUSIC LIMITED
Written by: Joel Ford, Thomas Krell, Mike Silver
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
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How To Dress Well
How To Dress Well’s new album ‘The Anteroom’ will be released on 19th October via Domino Record Co. Pre-order here: http://smarturl.it/TheAnteroomLP
More from How To Dress Well on YouTube: http://smarturl.it/BestOfHTDW
jdgonzo1982
The whole album, this single/video...the body fat song...all of it is something to be hugely proud of. Good luck in the new year dude! I haven’t stopped listening to your album all year....so thank you x
SanTea Z
this song deserves much more views
Beau Audirsch
This is still one of the absolutely best songs I’ve heard in the last few years.
NMilkster
This is the future and a logical step for you mate. Absolute class production and tone. I can see the influence dance music has had on you and its paying off. Keep it up!
SanityMachine
this album is so good and the live show was crazy as well
revengerknight92
This album is too good to be real.
thefuturedrive
Love this very much! Great sound and a visually impactful vid. Tom is such a creative performer.
Hugo Treger
Love this song & the new album. And I love Tom.
Mara
absolutely transcendent. had me dancing and crying on the first view.