How To Dress Well releases remaster of debut record 'Love Remains (Unworking Remaster)' & 'What Remains (Remixes)'
How To Dress Well
Releases remaster of debut record Love Remains (Unworking Remaster) & What Remains (Remixes)
Featuring new remixes from Claire Rousay, Nick León, Shlohmo, North Americans, Carmen Villain and more
Today, How To Dress Well, the project of Tom Krell, releases a remastered version of his critically acclaimed debut record Love Remains. The new Unworking Remaster was mastered in London by Jason Goz (the mastering engineer at Transition Mastering Studios, behind Burial’s Untrue) is streaming now and features new artwork by Joshua James Clancy Organization and two previously unreleased bonus tracks, “K City (Live in Tokyo, 2009, feat. ★gLfX彁)” and “K City (Live in Gothenburg, 2012).” For those who recall the early blogspot.com days, “K City” was the only track Krell had recorded when, alongside beloved Australian Actionist/Butoh dancer Sarry Carten and Latvian sound artist ★gLfX彁, he first performed live as HTDW for a show in Tokyo in 2009. While Krell’s original recording was simply acoustic guitar and clean vocals, evidently, much of Krell's 2010 debut record – and much of what has followed from How To Dress Well – came from this unique collaboration.
How To Dress Well also shares What Remains (Remixes), a new remix compilation of select tracks from Love Remains by contemporary producers handpicked by Krell himself, including Claire Rousay, Nick León, Shlohmo, North Americans, and Carmen Villain.
"I'm really happy to celebrate the 13.5ish year anniversary of this album! Very important anniversary! jk but ya I’m so thankful for all the friends who agreed to remix these songs that mean so much to me and hopefully a lot to some other folks too. I hope the people who are excited to hear this have a really great feeling when they listen to the remaster and the remixes. I have a new record coming in 2023 that I made with CFCF and Tray Tryon and Joshua Clancy and others – I’m really proud of the new work and can’t wait to share it with you all. "
Listen to Love Remains (Unworking Remaster) here.
Listen to What Remains (Remixes) here.
Love Remains introduced fans to How To Dress Well’s smoldering, evocative universe in 2010. Contorted echoes and murky, muted beats collided with Krell’s signature haunting-slash-heartwarming vocals. This is a unique record from a unique artist, one who has consistently put out engaging and emotionally resonant music for over a decade. Over the last decade, Krell’s music has evolved in unpredictable directions, but everything is grounded in Love Remains, a record that is sonically adventurous but formally pop, bracing but angelic, a grounding sound that almost feels like it’s evaporating as you’re listening to it.
Praise for Love Remains:
“How to Dress Well is to my mind the biggest breakthrough in home-recorded lo-fi in years. It feels brave, like it's going places a lot of artists in this sphere are afraid to go.” - Pitchfork *Best New Music
“Filled with elegiac songs, awash in loops and reverberation.” - New York Times
“The reverb is uniformly harsh and abrasive, the vocals crackle and dissolve with digital clipping at any volume — the texture of Love Remains is more like a scorched marshmallow, one that’s cooled off just enough to eat.” - Stereogum
“This debut is a different kind of soul music, as meditative as it is evocative.” - SPIN
“Love Remains is an immersive experience that transcends its chilliness (and speaker-crackling sonic limitations) through pure emotion, whether it’s the stroboscopic swirl of ‘Ready For The World’ or the pocket symphony build of ‘Decisions.’” - AV Club
“Nods to the flamboyant R&B popular during Krell’s ’90s youth while also embracing the transporting power of crackly, densely packed audio collage... The songs represent soul music’s unstable isotope; hooky as many of them are, they always tilt toward abstraction.” - The FADER
Love Remains (Unworking Remaster) artwork:
Tracklisting:
1. You Hold The Water - Remastered
2. Ready For The World
3. My Body - Remastered
4. Suicide Dream 2 - Remastered
5. You Won't Need Me Where I'm Goin' - Remastered
6. Can't See My Own Face - Remastered
7. Walking This Dumb (Live) - Remastered
8. Date of Birth - Remastered
9. Escape Before The Rain - Remastered
10. Endless Rain - Remastered
11. Lover's Start - Remastered
12. Mr. By & By - Remastered
13. Decisions feat. Yuksel Arslan - Remastered
14. Suicide Dream 1 - Remastered
1 5. K City (Live in Tokyo, 2009, feat. ★gLfX彁)
16. K City (Live in Gothenburg, 2012)
What Remains (Remixes) artwork:
Tracklisting:
1. Suicide Dream 1 - Claire Rousay presents 'Suicide Dreams'
2. Ready For The World - CFCF's Ready For The World Wooly Passage
3. Suicide Dream 1 - ★gLfX彁 presents 'Suicide Dream 99 (sumthins grand as life n simple as a prsn)'
4. Escape Before The Rain - Trayer Tryon's 'no escape before the rain'
5. Escape Before The Rain - Nick León's 'Escape Before the Rain (Flood Mix)'
6. Ready For The World - Shlohmo's 'Ready For The World Remix'
7. Escape Before The Rain - North Americans presents 'Escape Before the Rain Unplugged in New York'
8. My Body - Carmen Villain's 'My Body Rework'
9. You Won’t Need Me Where I’m Going - ★gLfX彁 presents Love Remains [but In A Roomful Of Electronics With Water Dripping From The Ceiling]
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