How To Dress Well (aka Tom Krell) has announced his first album in six years, I Am Toward You. It comes out May 10 via Sargent House, following multiple albums for Domino / Weird World (pre-order). Along with the announcement comes new singles “New Confusion” and “No Light,” which find HTDW in experimental electronic pop territory with contributions from CFCF and Trayer Tryon. “No Light” also features Anarthia DLT.
About “New Confusion,” Tom says, “It’s about how to relate to the past knowing the hard limits on human memory and the challenges of metabolizing intergenerational-anthropogenetic trauma. ‘At best regret, at worst forgetfulness,’ I sing in the chorus – a tortured concept of memory, no doubt. But I also sing that there is a path to freedom from this bind.” Listen to both new songs below.
Tom says that the album title, I Am Toward You, came from his wife mishearing a lyric in the Miley Cyrus song “I Adore You.” “[She said,] ‘wow, that’s a powerful lyric,’ I asked which lyric, and she responded that she heard the chorus as having said: ‘I Am Toward You,’” he says. “Because I had expressed to her that I thought the song was powerful, she generously attuned her mind to hear something powerful, something profound.”
Tracklist
1. New Confusion
2. Contingency / Necessity (Modality of Fate)
3. Crypt Sustain
4. No Light (feat. Anarthia DLT)
5. nothingprayer
6. On It and Around It
7. Song in the Middle
8. Gas Station Against Blackened Hillside
9. A Faint Glow Through a Window of Thin Bone (That’s How My Fate is Shown)
10. The Only True Joy On Earth
11. A Secret Within the Voice
