How To Dress Well is the stage name of songwriter and producer Tom Krell. Krell’s burgeoning career began in 2009 when, having just moved from Brooklyn to Berlin, his songs began to emerge online via a hugely prolific string of free, digital EPs posted in anonymity on his blog. Combining a gorgeous falsetto with fractured R&B-influenced beats, his debut album ‘Love Remains’ duly garnered vast critical acclaim.

The new album, ‘Total Loss’ (out 17th August 2012 on Weird World) was recorded over a span of 15 months in Brooklyn, Chicago, Nashville and London, Krell says that period of time was a...