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How To Dress Well - "Let U Know"

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How To Dress Well follows the recent release of the What Is This Heart? LP with the new single "Let U Know" - a bonus track from the project, which arrived in June via Domino Recording Co. The track is a stripped down, emotionally charged affair that features How To Dress Well aka Tom Krell at his most vulnerable and raw. The track arrives with a note on the significance of the song and an explanation of his decision to drop it exclusive of the album:

How to Dress Well today presents a new song called “Let U Know,” a bonus cut from his new album "What Is This Heart?". Krell insisted that this song come out before his next single from "WITH?" because, as he put it, "in singing 'Let U Know,' I discovered the title of my album and a lot of its meaning -- I needed this song to be heard by people, even though I couldn't find a place for it on the album proper. When I made this song, singing over a song originally by one of my best friends ("Let U Know" is a partial cover of a song by Krell's friend oFF Love), a lot of what I'd developed on "WITH?" just came clear to me -- these questions, these relationships with the past and the future, all this love..."

Check the track below to listen to "Let U Know" from How To Dress Well. Purchase the What Is This Heart? LP via iTunes. Stay tuned for more.