Body Fat is the new single from How To Dress Well‘s The Anteroom album, which comes out on October 19th.
It’s about ‘the intergenerational transmission of trauma’ according to Tom Krell, picked from a record which Live4ever has described as being ‘as necessary as it is difficult and unwilling to fully unravel itself‘:
“Krell describes the redemptory part of his process as being stationed in ‘a chamber that separates the known and the unknown, stable life from total disintegration’, and these extremes of horror and revelation dominate The Anteroom, from the fractal vulnerability of July 13 No Hope No Pain, Vacant Boat’s skittering, rare sense of connected warmth to Brutal’s gorgeously orchestrated desperation, the latter featuring grainy backwash from poet Ocean Vuong.”
“Restraint under these circumstances is a circus; there’s no doubting that Krell’s need for extemporising, to make the listener experience the wild swings of living inside the transitory place he’s locked into, makes at times for an almost confrontational experience, a step into a new alienated reality similar, but not the same as, that jump made by Justin Vernon on Bon Iver’s second album 22, A Million.”
