What Is This Heart?
by How to Dress Well
User Score
8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 41 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 36 out of 41
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 41
  3. Negative: 2 out of 41
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  1. All_ButTrU4
    Mar 26, 2022
    6
    Though it never quite comes through crystal-clear, the intensity and sincerity of the underlying emotion manages to bleed through a confusing swirl of altered sounds.

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Metascore
69

Generally favorable reviews - based on 32 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 32
  3. Negative: 1 out of 32
  1. Austin Chronicle
    Aug 21, 2014
    78
    It's a smörgåsbord of carefully culled influence, one that Krell indulges in with gusto.
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  2. Mojo
    Jul 24, 2014
    60
    Krell sounds like ha has taken a step back, seemingly trading his experimentalism for a more traditional blue-eyed soul route. [Jul 2014, p.91]
  3. Magnet
    Jul 18, 2014
    30
    What Is This Heart? certainly isn't done any favors by Krell's stock, dejection-by-the-numbers lyricism and the baring of his overextended falsetto against the array of muted synths, strings and drum machines that crop up from song to song, as the album cycles through every tired adult-contemporary R&B trope in the book. [No. 111, p.55]
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