Tom Krell has just released his second album as How To Dress Well, Total Loss . He talks candidly with Sophie Coletta about the difficult events that inspired the making of the album, and why the R&B tag doesn't quite fit In 1984, Martin Bell made Streetwise , a documentary about homeless teens living on the streets of Seattle. One of its protagonists, Rat, was a 17-year old who lived in an abandoned house that could only be accessed by crawling up a drainpipe. The film opens to lethargic whistling and seagulls. Rat stands atop a bridge, soaked through, the Seattle heat visibly evaporating water off his back. "I love to fly," he drawls, baseball cap positioned backwards on his head. "It's just you're alone; there's peace and quiet, nothing around you but clear blue sky. No-one to hassle you, no-one to tell you where to go or what to do." He steps up onto the railings of the bridge, grasping a nearby lamppost for support. "The only bad thing about flying is having to come back down to the fucking world," he finishes, before hurling his emaciated figure to the sky, hanging in a moment of inertia before plunging 80ft into Seattle's Swinomish Channel below. Over an unusually clear Skype line, Tom Krell, known better by his onstage moniker, How To Dress Well, has just rolled out of bed. Ironically, considering his chosen name, he's not wearing all that much. He is talking about how Bell's film influenced part