How Do You Do CD

Given the recent chart success of revivalist neo-soul crooners like Cee-Lo Brown, it was perhaps inevitable that blue-eyed soul boy Mayer Hawthorne would be snapped up by a big label - particular given the critical success of his 2009 debut on Stones Throw, A Strange Arrangement. So here he is on Island, with a typically slick and heartfelt album that should at least cement his position as this generation's premier purveyor of comfy blue-eyed soul. As with his previous releases, How Do You Do features an enjoyable mix of erection-section slow jams, Motown-inspired stompers, lazy 60s grooves and Boz Scaggs-ish West Coast anthems.