How To Dress Well - I Am Toward You (Solar Outburst Vinyl)

How To Dress Well - I Am Toward You (Solar Outburst Vinyl)In his 13 years recording as How To Dress Well, LA based musician Tom Krell has played with the concept of what we hear and how we communicate in order to create music that exists somewhere between celestial transcendence and an outsider approach to what pop music can be. In Krells musical world, the weight of a sample comes from his history with it, the meaning of a lyric fragment is stretched and distorted, its core skirting universal interpretation

he has returned with another statement that feels equally cumulative and unprecedented in his catalog

In the first encounter

offering commentary on modern life and technology through curious lyrical vignettes

Berlin-based producer and artist has blazed her own trail as the first Korean DJ to play Berghain

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at perhaps the freest

when she first collaborated with Chaz Bear of Toro y Moi

The band became known as a member of the much heralded Elephant 6 Collective

these guys are kind of the top for me

Balla’s guitar lines at times flirt with ticklish cosmic country

and Ab-Soul all convene for the twinkling ominousness of album standout “Really Doe

It’s also the beginning of a new chapter for Strange Ranger and a snapshot that pushes the boundaries of what rock music can sound like