How to Dress Well: Care review – pop at its boldest
(Weird World/Domino)
How to Dress Well: Care review – a step into irredeemable pop schmaltz
The playlist
How to Dress Well's playlist: Prince Bopp, Donna Lewis and more
The alt-R&B artist picks some hyper-melodic, joyful tracks from rap’s new wave, a modern experimental standout and a late 90s love song
June 2014
Listen up
Five albums to try this week: Keaton Henson, Ed Sheeran and more
Keaton Henson’s sorrowful instrumentals and Ed Sheeran’s latest are among five new albums to consider this week
What Is This Heart? review – How to Dress Well's glacial soul begins to thaw
Tom Krell's third helping of indie-soul is less bleak but equally seductive – in patches, writes Phil Mongredien
How to Dress Well: What is This Heart? review – a soundtrack to heartbreak and general misery
Heartbroken hipster Tom Krell wants to toughen up – though he is growing and experimenting, writes Tshepo Mokoena
December 2012
The Guide's review of 2012
Did gloomy hipsters ruin R&B in 2012?
Michael Cragg sees nothing wrong with a little bump'n'whine but Alex Macpherson is fed up of sadsacks gentrifying his tunes
November 2012
How to Dress Well – review
Tom Krell's extraordinary Prince-like falsetto locates the precise meeting place between agony and ecstasy, writes Dave Simpson
September 2012
How to Dress Well: Total Loss – review
Berlin-based New Yorker Tom Krell has made one of the year's most affecting records, writes Dave Simpson
How To Dress Well: 'I was working through shock, anger, misery and pain'
Tom Krell is a philosophy graduate, influenced equally by Mariah Carey and Lubomyr Melnyk. But he wants his extraordinary new album Total Loss to 'touch as many people as possible'
Album streams
How to Dress Well – Total Loss: exclusive album stream
Listen to the haunting second album from How to Dress Well and let us know your thoughts
August 2012
This week's new live music
This week's new live music
Joy Orbison | How To Dress Well | Blur | Jon Cowherd Band | Brecon Jazz Festival | Mass Of Life
October 2010
New band of the week
How to Dress Well (No 894)
Tom Krell tweaks and tailors R&B to deliver diaphanous indie-soul kitted out in gorgeous melodies
August 2010
New music
New music: How to Dress Well – Ecstasy With Jojo
A soppy Michael Jackson ballad is transformed into a funky – and ghostly – paean to the joys of class A drugs
