March’s Upfront Series Presents : How To Dress Well and Grimes Live In Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur has elevated their indie music scene! In March, Upfront offer you guys for the cool intimate shows : How To Dress Well and Grimes!

How To Dress Well :

Another diamond in the ceaseless pool of self-recording and lo-fi indie musicians who wants to make it big in the real world, How to Dress Well has definitely caught the hearts of many music enthusiasts with his ethereal/R&B sounds, embraced in a distant falsetto vocals. Fellow indie music fanatics in Kuala Lumpur will have the chance to watch Tom Krell perform his faultless tunes in a live intimate setting brought by The Bee at Publika.

As a philosophy graduate from Brooklyn, Tom Krell started his music career by uploading free EPs from The Eternal Love in a blog project that has captured the attention of the online audience and gained fans along the way. How to Dress Well finally released an official album debut, Love Remains, in the fall of 2010, with some tracks that were released in the very first EP. Being described as ambient yet cryptic and melancholic; almost to the point of being devastating, How to Dress Well have turned heads of the music reviewers, giving very positive response towards his first album. Love Remains was also rated as 19th in Pitchfork Media’s list of The Top 50 Albums of 2010.

Continuing his emerging eminence, How to Dress Well released Just Once EP in 2011 and Total Loss in 2012 as his second studio album. Though having undergone a slightly risky change of music style, progressing from being emotional with the intentionally static audio effect into a more synth, radiant and refined aesthetic, How to Dress Well has successfully satisfied the listeners and reviewers, including singles such as Cold Nites and & It Was You. The second album, which has also received mostly a four-star rating from renowned critics, was listed as 33rd Top 50 Album by Stereogums.
Upfront Series by The Bee at Publika is kindly inviting us to live-witness the ambient How to Dress Well on the first of March of 2013. Judging from previous gigs from the Upfront, it is undeniable that Tom Krell’s performance will be just as tempting and heart-throbbing, so don’t miss it!

Date : Friday, March 1st, 2013
Venue: The Bee, Publika, Kuala Lumpur
Tickets: RM 78
Tickets on sale at The Bee Outlets (Jaya One and Publika) and Rock Corner, Bangsar Village 1. Entrance opens at 8 pm. Fair warning that this intimate event is 18+.

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Grimes :

Kuala Lumpur’s music enthusiasts are indeed lucky in these premature weeks of a new year. Upfront, a series of intimate live-show brought by The Bee, Publika, will be presenting another indie sensation, Grimes, as the next star after previously holding both successful gigs of 65daysofstatic and The Vaccines.
Claire Boucher, or popularly known as Grimes, will be touring around Asia starting from early March 2013, radiating her psychedelic-pop sound to countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan.

Harmonized in a fluctuating way between contemporary synths and classic baby-voice vocals, Grimes have proven to create a musical genre of its own, described by Boucher herself as “ADD music”, adapting its frequently changing characteristics. Her live performance does not only have the sense of musical escalation, but more of a visual art performance as Grimes herself is not only a talented musician but a visual artist/director.
Debuting with her first album, Geidi Primes, in 2010, followed by her second album, Halfaxa in the same year, Grimes continues to stun indie-tronic fans with her out-of-the-world music with her newest album, Visions, released in the January 2012. Visions has received a great deal of attention and successfully listed amongst the Best Album of the Year, which The Guardian described it as “a masterpiece in gonzo pop that is weird, original and derivative at the same time.”

Influenced by quite a few drastically distinct music styles, starting from electronic, pop, goth, R&B, and even medieval, Grimes ascends with Vanessa and continues to impress the musical industry with two of her hypnotizing songs Oblivion and Genesis, from her album Visions. Her sense of visual and self-directing music videos is also one of the charms of Claire Boucher, as being very different and unpredictable in the current music scene.

Upfront presents Grimes
Date  :    March 12th, 2013
Venue  :    The Bee, Publika, Kuala Lumpur
Tickets :
 Presale tickets – RM108 (sold out)
 Regular sale tickets – RM128
Tickets on sale from December 15th, 2012 at The Bee Outlets (Jaya One and Publika) and Rock Corner, Bangsar Village 1. Entrance opens at 8 pm. Fair warning that this intimate event is 18+.
So are you already fired up for a psychedelic and alien-influenced sound of the enigmatic Grimes? Then go and get the tickets, pronto, as it will be one of Upfront’s yet another not-to-miss live events.