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HOW TO DRESS WELL

I AM TOWARD YOU (SARGENT HOUSE)

HOW TO DRESS WELL - I AM TOWARD YOU 163913
format:
1 LP
release:
10.05.2024
label:
SARGENT HOUSE
item ID:
163913
barcode:
0634457169302
In his 15+ 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.

I Am Toward You is the first new How To Dress Well album in six years, with some of his noisiest, most free, and most poetic music to date.

Krell opens the second decade of his career with an album that delivers on the hallmarks of his best work.

Krell alongside returning and new collaborators CFCF, Chris Votek, Joel Ford, Josh Clancy, Trayer Tryon (Hundred Waters), Brian Allen Simon (Anenon), and Aaron Charles Read began work on what would become I Am Toward You in 2020.

He sifted through hundreds of snippets he'd recorded in the preceding decade, finding inexplicable samples and snatches of audio that began to cohere into an album that stripped back the density of previous albums to create a collection of songs that oscillate between the present and the past as if it's happening all at once.

A memory from 20 years ago holds just as much weight as something that happened yesterday.

Initial singles and announcement received an incredible response from numerous notable outlets, including Pitchfork, Stereogum, FADER, Clash, Quietus Brooklyn Vegan + much more, videos for additional focus tracks are completed and will be released along with each song.

LPs w/ printed inner sleeve + download card, CD is Digipak!
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. NEW CONFUSION
  • 1.2. CONTINGENCY / NECESSITY (MODALITY OF FATE)
  • 1.3. CRYPT SUSTAIN
  • 1.4. NO LIGHT (FEAT. ANARTHIA DLT)
  • 1.5. NOTHINGPRAYER
  • 1.6. ON IT AND AROUND IT
  • 1.7. SONG IN THE MIDDLE
  • 1.8. GAS STATION AGAINST BLACKENED HILLSIDE
  • 1.9. A FAINT GLOW THROUGH A WINDOW OF THIN BONE (THAT'S HOW MY FATE IS SHOWN)
  • 1.10. THE ONLY TRUE JOY ON EARTH
  • 1.11. A SECRET WITHIN THE VOICE