Idle Warship is perhaps best approached without knowing the group's pedigree, which boasts rapper Talib Kweli, rock/soul singer Res and Canadian artist Graph Nobel. Without the expectation of knowing who’s in the band, you can hear Idle Warship as they should be heard, which is as a young and restless rock/hip-hop/soul hybrid along the lines of N.E.R.D. and the band members’ individual works. Electro-tinged jams like “The Floor” benefit greatly from Res’s sprited singing. Res, the would-be starlet from the early '00s who never quite fit into any mold enough for a breakthrough, was always ahead of her time, and it’s wonderful to hear her again — she sounds as hungry here as she did on her excellent debut, How I Do. Kweli, never one for the spotlight to begin with, sounds re-energized in this outfit as a sideman (remember Black Star, with Mos Def?), while Graph Nobel is sort of the Pras of the package, the young gun who proves herself in small doses — check out her verses on “System Addict.” At times the project feels a bit dated (Is that Destiny’s Child’s Michelle Williams on “Katya”? Sure is!), but it also is a welcome reminder that meldings between hip-hop and rock need not lack soulfulness.