How To Dress Well - Care (TBA) Album • Page 6

classixx song is extremely dope

 

Hoping this album sticks with me more after seeing these songs live next week. Right now it's firmly my least favorite thing he's done.

 

Salt song might be the best song hes ever written imo

 

Hmm I do get what you're saying, I hadn't really thought about it that way. Idk I think part of it is also the delivery as Ryan mentioned, like there are ways to be emotionally honest without it being awkward (not saying that lines on here necessarily are). In any case it's really not something that bothers me much in the context of a great record.

 

Untitled absolutely FLOORED me yesterday... what a closing track.

 

Salt Song was one of my least favorites on first listen

 

Really? I think its the perfected amalgam of all the sounds hes tried throughout his career, and the guitar explosion at the end is beautiful in the context of his career. He wouldve been terrified to do something like that on the earlier albums.

 

it's a dece song but not the best not even in top half. guitar explosion is pretty poorly executed. It's catchy as sin tho just like all these songs. The record does kinda drag as it goes on but there's no real weak spot just had some listeners fatigue setting in on first couple listens.

 

Anxious has been also getting in my head a lot recently

 

I dig this way more than anything else I've heard from him

 

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lol that review references Genius. Garbage

 

Also calling Lost Youth/Lost You the weakest track on the album baffles me, song is one of my favorites

 

Probably the weakest for me. Or maybe I just overplayed it. Still a great song

 

Well I certainly don't think the genius reference was positive for either genius or krell

 

I realize that, I just think it's silly to pull some random asshole's interpretation of lyrics in order to slight an artist

 

Yeah well idk. Krell has caught a lot of slack from white listeners not disposed to lending the same depth they give him to other musicians. I think that reflects in that explanation (how's it do on upvotes or W/e?) even the stereogum piece talks about how HTDW is more of a comment on R&B than straight up R&B

 

Yeah and I never really got behind that analysis of him. Is there anything that Krell has posted that leads people to believe he feels that way? That he's more of a "commentary" rather than simply an R&B artist? If there is, that's pretty shitty.

If not, it's similar to the analysis of Thug being "more than hip hop" or w/e. People, especially on Genius, wax poetic constantly about shit that has very simple meanings. I didn't read the Stereogum piece, but the way you describe it makes it sound patronizing to R&B fans which sucks. I don't see any of that holier than thou attitude coming from Krell, though

 

Theyre calling it that because he's white. I have no doubts in my mind.

The music is admittedly more rooted in pop than R&B than the last album, but to me he's always been an altR&B musician with lots of ambient influences

 

How to Dress Well: Soul to Keep | Pitchfork

He said some Suspect things about Miguel in here. i like the music but he has absolutely benefited from critics and fans alike affording him the kind of incisive criticism and evaluation not afforded to (black) artists making exciting music within more traditional confines.

It wasnt patronizing to R&B fans. I read it, I'm an R&B fan, it was a comment on the refusal or inability to embrace the musical language being used as building blocks.

 

Correct, that's the point. It's an implicit rebuttal of the last six years of criticism that have overpraosed white "alt" R&B artists

 

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This album is really opening up for me. New favorites are I Was Terrible and Anxious.

 

I really like this album. It's like he's mixed the overt poppiness of "What Is This Heart?" with his more ambient sound. This is much more cohesive than his previous effort as well.