How to Dress Well

Tom Krell, aka How To Dress Well, is back with some more lo-fi R&B - this time teasing us with an ambient track off his upcoming sophomore release. It's a piece noted by faint drums and his uniquely soothing high voice. As one SoundClouder put it: "This is some seriously spiritual shit." Indeed.The track is quietly piercing - sort of like a swan song. While mute for their entire lives, a swan will sing beautifully and mournfully right before they die. You can't find two better words to describe this track: beautiful yet mournful. I guess that's what you can expect to get when you pair psychedelic with ambient, lo-fi with R&B. The track is actually a very personal one; apparently Tom was supposed to meet a best friend who he hadn't seen in a year, but on his way to meet him the friend passed away. The track's title seems to allude to hitting rock bottom while the album title is pretty self explanatory: TOTAL LOSS. It's a haunting reminder that there's an ocean floor for everything and everyone.I think Tom Breihan of Stereogum put it perfectly when he quipped that the track basically sounds like it'll fit well during a tearjerking montage in a movie in about three years from now. To me, it conjures images of a Mumblecore trailer focused on two people just staring at each other in a laundromat in New York City in the middle of the night, then cutting to them sitting in Central Park staring at the clouds. What do you hear?I know you're ready for him, baby, but for now you just have to follow him on Twitter under @HowToDressWell. The album drops this fall on Acephale in North America.