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So...How's Your Girl?
by Handsome Boy Modeling School


8.6

based on 13 reviews
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White People

Producers Prince Paul and Dan "The Automator" Nakamura assembled a varied cast of collaborators, including Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto), Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, DJ Shadow, Sean Lennon, Josh Hayden (Spain), De La Soul, and, of all people, Father Guido Sarducci. The band's name comes from an episode of the Chris Elliott sitcom "Get A Life."

LABEL:	Tommy Boy
RELEASE DATE:	19 October 1999
DISCS:	1 disc
GENRE(S):	Alternative, Electronic, Hip-Hop, Pop

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Village Voice (Consumer Guide)

More trip- than hip-hop in that its irresistibility is atmospheric -- a sound that pits industrial textures against quiet piano samples/parts.

Austin Chronicle

Ultimately, it all plays out like a 60-minute calling card that illustrates hip-hop's most liberal producers aren't afraid to keep on keepin' on.

MTV.com

So ... How's Your Girl? ... mental infomercial, fashion Trojan horse, soundtrack to a movie we may never see, sheer genius ... uh huh, it's all that and so much more. Handsome Boy Modeling School is your ticket to a better quality of life.

All Music Guide

Handsome Boy Modeling School succeeds where so many compilations fail. It's a great album from start to finish.

Armchair DJ

"So ..." is one of the most innovative albums of the year, stretching the gamut of every musical genre that melts in your head, not in your mouth.

Q Magazine

Sixty minutes long -- the album's subtitle is "A Musical Curriculum" -- this is pure, hip-hop-based sampledelica and anything but po-faced.

E! Online

A leader of the old school teams up with an upstart from the new, and the classy result is the way-out antics of Handsome Boy Modeling School.

Village Voice

Albums like this one ... are by definition not great personal statements, nor even necessarily artistic peaks for the acts involved. But they keep going, A to the B to the C to the D, and right now that's more than enough.

CDNow

So … How's your Girl is more an experiment in possibility than a cohesive album -- hip-hop rubs up against various other forms of digital noise, and the frictional frisson is both pleasant and surprising. Luckily, Handsome Boy Modeling School has lessons well worth learning.

Rolling Stone

Rockwell and Merriweather may never sashay down Paris runways, but their How's Your Girl? has a hot style all its own.

Delusions of Adequacy

These two guys are good on the turntables and production, and they've got some stellar hip hop and rock guests. Check out this collaboration, one of the few hip-hop albums that I truly think is a must-have.

New Musical Express

'So ... How's Your Girl?' is precision-tooled to amuse the Beastie Boys, for sure. But it also harbours a wit and dexterity that not only represents the usual cliquey extended family, but also manages to transcend them.

Pitchfork

It's all good enough, but how many times, really, do you need to hear the term "rock the mic" in an hour? Not this many.

The average user rating for this album is 8.6 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

[Anonymous] gave it a9:
masterful.

grug gave it an 8:
Not a fan of hip-hop, but this CD (and indeed most anything with Dan The Automator involved) is great, but no Deltron 3030. Once again, note that Pitchfork drags the score down again...

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So...How's Your Girl? by Handsome Boy Modeling School

So...How's Your Girl?
by Handsome Boy Modeling School