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Sep 18, 2012How to Dress Well still works best when Krell favors the more ethereal side of his music, blurring together his influences into something more unique.
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Sep 24, 2012It's an album that ceaselessly overflows with love and a desire to reach out and relate, and it's this that makes such a heavy album so accessible and so resoundingly good.
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Sep 18, 2012HWTD has dug himself a neat, little songbird alcove and it's one only he can reach.
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Sep 18, 2012It's a less unified effort than its predecessor because of this, but more importantly, Krell treads new grounds.
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Dec 7, 2012With eleven songs, the album flows serenely well and sounds like a two part voyage; the second half much weightier, the first half perhaps more buoyant.
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Sep 18, 2012Amongst all that haze, it's clear that Krell has produced another gorgeous record that is incredibly open about love and loss.
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Sep 18, 2012There's a delicacy, a deftness of touch throughout Total Loss that's wondrous.
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Sep 19, 2012Total Loss is a brave effort by an artist who's clearly not afraid to show vulnerability through risk-taking and soul baring.
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Sep 18, 2012Total Loss is a largely dud-free album.
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Sep 21, 2012Although Total Loss focuses on the deterioration of relationships over time, it's interesting that each track inverts that idea by flourishing with every second that passes.
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Sep 18, 2012While Love Remains proved a hard listen because of its liberal use of distorted effects, Total Loss is tough going because of the emotional intensity of its content.
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Sep 18, 2012Squired by The xx producer Rodaidh McDonald, this second album is hugely accomplished.
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Sep 18, 2012On the poignant and powerful Total Loss, he's finally invited us all in.
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Sep 20, 2012Total Loss uses the common tools of pop expression-- four-minute songs, autobiography, choruses, confession-- to create a work of poignant and devastating art.
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Sep 18, 2012By focusing both on overt dynamics and dozens of quiet, underlying ripples, Krell has lent his work a subtle weightiness that becomes clear only after repeat listens.
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Sep 25, 2012Total Loss is a beautiful album, all ambient longing and sadness and spectral pop, rising and falling without warning - no other artist gets more emotional effect out of leaving things not quite finished. But it still feels not quite finished.
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Sep 18, 2012whereas Krell's keening, pleading falsetto dominated Love Remains, Total Loss finds him granting the rest of his sonic palette more prominence.
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Sep 20, 2012Total Loss is surely one of the year's most affecting records: a symphony of pain that continues haunting long after the record ends.
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UncutSep 28, 2012An intriguing new artist has found his voice. [Nov 2012, p.76]
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Under The RadarSep 18, 2012When Krell is on, he's on. [Aug/Sep 2012, p.111]
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Sep 18, 2012Total Loss is an overwhelming album given the rollercoaster of emotions Krell goes through over the course of its 11 tracks.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 23
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Mixed: 4 out of 23
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Negative: 0 out of 23
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