Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. Golden Boys
2. They-Say Vision
3. 700 Mile Situation
4. Ice King
5. Sittin' Back
6. How I Do
7. If There Ain't Nothing
8. Hustler, The
9. I've Known the Garden
10. Let Love
11. Tsunami
| | Details | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Personnel includes: Res (vocals); Doc (guitar, bass, programming); Soul Fingaz (keyboards); Kobe (bass); Chuck Treece (drums); Steven Murray (programming).
Producers: Doc, A Kid Called Roots, Bose, Mr. Khaliyl.
Engineers include: Tom DeKorte, Blair Robb, Tony Prendatt.
Recorded at TMF Studios, Quad Recording Studios, Black Corners, and Battery Studios, New York, New York.
Res is ostensibly a contemporary R&B singer, but in actuality that's about as informative (and accurate) as calling Radiohead a modern rock band. She shares some of the roots-conscious sensibility of history-respecting artists like Maxwell and Musiq Soulchild, but she ranges far beyond merely updating '70s soul grooves with hip-hop production tricks. Her lyrics are thoughtful and carefully constructed (more than one can say for many of her less creative contemporaries), and her musical palette is wide-ranging. HOW I DO's eclectic melding of styles owes as much to pop and rock as it does to R&B, ultimately creating a fresh new musical paradigm. The resultant crossover appeal should (if there's any justice) make Res appealing to the pop/rock crowd as well as to those who paper their walls with life-size photos of Macy Gray and Sunshine Anderson.
| | Editorial reviews | 7 out of 10 - ...[Res] can probably only be understood...in relevance to a life lived as a classically trained prodigy who gets as much from '70s soul as Pearl Jam...
NME (04/06/2002)
3 out of 5 stars - ...Res offers a hotchpotch of musical styles....one minute swooping soulfully, the next a husky mutter...
Q (05/01/2002)
3 stars out of 5 - ...This sounds more like peak '70s Pretenders than anyone in black music history....HOW DO I does that rare thing: It provides an original direction...
Rolling Stone (08/30/2001)
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