How to Dress Well - Love Remains

Review by Sean Adams

Love Remains is an album at odds with itself. On the one hand, it’s a gentle voyage into a land of elegant dissonance where barely there beats are swept away by warm washes of sound installation-ish noise. On the other, it’s a conflicted record that asks more questions than it answers. Krell ponders whether the only place indie-rock/chillwave has left to go is inward, to the depths of ambient or whether to embrace a world of soul or climb to the heights way beyond The Neptunes or Kayne. Yet, in an age of choice, why pick one answer? What if both answers are right? ...At first, this is a harsh, uninviting record with all the gloss of R&B replaced by the sand-papery texture of a cat’s tongue. If you could imagine Jodeci’s second album with the same musty are-my-speakers-broken haze as Pinkerton and Person Pitch, it helps to reveal what’s behind this dense production fug.»