Sep 2012 05
How To Dress Well has been exploring the outer limits of radicalised R&B for a few years now, the release of his debut album Love Remains can be considered a pivotal moment in the current phase of the genre. Now readying the release of his second album Total Loss and following his sensational cover of Janet Jackson’s ‘Again’ comes a new single titled ‘& It Was You’. Reaching for the highest parts of his falsetto, Tom Krell yet again manages to capture the fundamental essence of a classic R&B, while avoiding uninspired rehashing and through very minimal production is able to keep things new jack funky. This sounds like Colour Me Badd circa 2012 – incredible.
[...] creative eccentricities. Not to mention, lyrically speaking, he leaves very little untapped. But ‘& It Was You’, for which a video was just released, is probably one of my favourite songs featured among the 11. [...]