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- Summary: Tom Krell's four-track orchestral EP includes two tracks from his debut album, a reworked version of Decisions, and one new track.
- Record Label: Love Letters Ink
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Jul 26, 2011Just Once is certainly a singular release and not a direction for HTDW's future (though more of this stuff wouldn't be unwelcome), but it's still moving in a way that is completely individual.
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Jul 26, 2011Giving the Just Once EP a listen should quell any doubts regarding his versatility, because it's almost like hearing How to Dress Well again for the first time.
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Jul 26, 2011Sure, there's no avoiding the fact that some of these songs are appearing for the third time. The nagging "what now?" question isn't going away. But it can be filed away for later.
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Jul 26, 2011These bright, string-swollen re-recordings reveal how harmonically rich those Love Remains songs were under all their static-it's a marvel, in retrospect, how Krell condensed such oversized melodies into such scruffy recordings.
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Aug 11, 2011This turns out to be an interesting but ultimately disappointing experiment, and the reason for its failure is telling: unlike the posturing shitgaze set who lean on lo-fi as a superficial crutch, How to Dress Well never treated lo-fi as a simple affectation, and as a result he can't walk away from it so easily.
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