How to Dress Well

As How to Dress Well, Tom Krell filters R&B and pop influences through an experimental lens to make music that is as affecting as it is haunting. Krell's 2011 debut album, Love Remains, wrapped melodies that evoked late-'80s and early-'90s R&B in impressionistic swaths of distortion and reverb that explored nostalgia and memories. Sometimes How to Dress Well's albums put hooks and melodies first; 2016's Care included production by pop maestro Jack Antonoff. Sometimes they have emphasized Krell's avant-garde leanings, as on 2018's Anteroom, which incorporated spoken-word passag...