How To Dress Well, “Words I Don’t Remember”

How To Dress Well’s latest track is fully in Tom Krell’s sweet spot of modernist, sonically star-scattered, intimately lonely R&B, but it’s also immediately extraordinary, one of his best yet: a song full of corners and swells, a hymn layered with curses and lamentation. I am having a hard time dealing with what it’s doing to me! I’ve looped the part between 1:57 and 2:00 about a dozen times now and I keep physically gasping, so maybe I should just quote Jane here: “I’ve been sitting here trying to think of a less crass/more nuanced way of describing what I’m feeling, but I can’t: this [] is seriously almost giving me an orgasm.”