What Is This Heart?
by How To Dress Well

What Is This Heart? by How To Dress Well
Year: 2014
Release date: 2014-06-24
Overall rank: 8,680th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 90 votes)
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Award Top albums of 2014 (165th)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (1,672nd)
Award Best albums of all time (8,680th)

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What Is This Heart? is ranked 2nd best out of 7 albums by How To Dress Well on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by How To Dress Well is Love Remains which is ranked number 6815 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 191.

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What Is This Heart?

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Overall rank: 8,680th | 2010s rank: 1,672nd | 2014 rank: 165th

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What Is This Heart? ratings

Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 90 votes)
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01/19/2026 15:50 TonySayers61  Ratings distribution  24,75564/100
 
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03/30/2023 11:50 Brad1770  Ratings distribution  1,61766/100
 
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05/08/2022 10:49 Arthurknight  Ratings distribution  9,59172/100
 
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11/15/2020 10:49 videoheadcleaner  Ratings distribution  12,37385/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.3/100, a mean average of 68.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.3.

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75/100
From 03/30/2023 11:54 | #295599
The original Pitchfork review for this album in 2014 described it as a pop masterpiece on one of the very few occasions Pitchfork got it 100% correct

Lightning in a bottle - Tom Krell will never reach these heights again
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From 07/30/2014 23:07 | #118161
Thankfully sounds a lot more like James Blake from Overgrown than say...The Weeknd. The ending of Precious Love is pretty corny, but I think Face Again and Repeat Pleasure make up for it. I enjoyed this overall, but I don't know when I'll come back to it.
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From 07/15/2014 07:39 | #116783
A bit of a mixed bag, but very good overall. "Repeat Pleasure" is the catchiest song I've heard all year.
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From 06/23/2014 21:28 | #115105
Refreshing. Dare I say, "witch-house" inspired R&B with top 40 accessibility mixed with some moments of incredibly dark undertones. However not enough to alienate itself from the genre. Actually reminds me a bit of one of my guilty pleasures, Savage Garden.
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From 06/18/2014 13:14 | #114666
good quality alternative R&B right here
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