Track Listing

1. Fiendish
2. Level Green
3. An Evening With Hefner
4. Dive Into You
5. Bubble Gun
6. Stagger
7. Fish Head
8. Every Day
9. Chocolate Beauty
10. Pumpkin Rum
11. Residue
12. Dawb
13. Balance

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #131941 in Music
• Released on: 2000-10-16
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Hefner--aka Lee Jones--started out in music by creating soundtracks for the movies of his fellow film students (he didn't actually like the course himself). It's partly this cinematic approach that lends Residue a wholly insouciant appeal, but that's not the whole story. Between these filmic moments, Jones also conjures up weightless echoes of black music styles like soul and funk and constructs organic sounding beatscapes to underpin the whole. While retaining enough of an urban feel to appeal to the dance brigade, this album also reaches out to a wider mainstream audience with it's elegiac strings and sophisticated jazz undertones. The whole is topped off with the vocals of chanteuse Josee, who manages to sing in exactly the soft, ethereal tones that the music demands. If ever there was a convincing case for the freeform experience, this is it--step into Hefner's world and let the residue of your mind simply drift away. --Paul Sullivan

Customer Reviews

2nd Division
This CD starts well & is mostly nice enough but it's a bit soulless & home-made sounding. The rhythm tracks are too wooden and the production rather 'dry'. The vocal tracks don't quite come off either.

Shame because the singer has a nice voice.

About as slick as they come
At long last Hefner's first album... and what a fiendish treat it is!
About as slick as they come and with some brilliant production (check out the sublime ending to Track 8, 'Every Day'), the album creates a cohesive landscape of sound and surprises. The music has a ring of familiarity - whilst remaining quite original - that effortlessly mixes dozens of sounds, styles and attitudes, creating the impression of not one but several albums playing simultaneously.
My only criticism is that the vocals are occasionally unintelligible.
Forget all this nonsense about who is the 'true-Hefner': instead just go out and buy this album now.

This Is the Real Hefner
I first heard about Hefner from a friend who had brought the album ' Residue'. I went out to buy it not knowing the title and picked up a CD by another band by the same name. DO NOT MAKE THAT MISTAKE!! Its nothing like the Hefner I wanted, dodgy guitars and opera like vocals, terrible. I managed to get a copy of 'Residue' from amazon and I knew this was the right one.
It begins with the excellent 'Fiendish'which has a beautiful vocal drifting through it over shuffled beats. A great opener. As you get deeper into the album, its difficult to pick out a favourite as each one can capture you onto a different hook, melody or arrangement. I've got to say that the tracks featuring the vocals of Josee Hurlock were outstanding, finding myself hovered over the repeat button wanting more and more. A perfect example is 'Dive Into You' which has a Hip Hop beat sample with guitars, strings and of course Josee's entrancing vocal.
A perfect combination of Instrumentals and Songs make this album something to treasure. Its surely only a matter of time before these guys get picked up by the radio stations and Hefner, The Real Hefner, The Producer Hefner, The Excellent Hefner, will be everywhere that a proper band should be......
When are these guys doing a tour. I need to see them live. Almost made the same mistake and went to see the other Hefner. Thank god my Switch Card didn't go through!!