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  How to Dress Well Depicts Golden God in '& It Was U' Video

  December 10, 2012 – Our own Zach Baron may have felt that How to Dress Well's latest album Total Loss just wasn't quite finished, but the new Luke Gilford-directed video for "& it was U" comes together beautifully while maintaining a cockeyed sense of winking mystery. The clip opens on a prayer circle bedecked in yellow, then cuts to a caped cult leader with blond dreadlocks riding a gold-plated Segway. …
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  How To Dress Well, 'Total Loss' (Acephale/Weird World)

  September 24, 2012 – 1. I interviewed Tom Krell, he of shadowy bedroom-R&B project How to Dress Well, in early 2010, shortly after he began posting a series of free EPs online. It was one of those interviews that swiftly became a therapy session: I remember him asking me something to the effect of, What should I do? …
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  Frank Ocean, Miguel, and Holy Other Usher in PBR&B 2.0

  August 22, 2012 – Something happened last year to R&B, something more radical than most of us realized. …
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  How to Dress Well, 'Love Remains' (Lefse)

  October 1, 2010 – Hazy nostalgia may have been the indie world's richest musical resource lately (Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Wild Nothing), but a long-overdue embrace of R&B has certainly been another (the xx, Dirty Projectors). As How to Dress Well, Tom Krell marries these two muses, conjuring fractured memories of Shai or TLC, mostly using his otherworldly falsetto. Also: reverb. But don't expect the sex-intelligence quotient of The-Dream. …
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