Clara Hill ‎– All I Can Provide

It might be unfair to judge a vocalist on her collaborators, but luckily Clara Hill, on ALL I CAN PROVIDE, chooses wisely. Meitz, for instance, gives "What For" a guitar-and-electronics backing that emphasizes the subtle shifts in key and mood and makes "Run" an uptempo jog. Other collaborators make up a who's-who of broken beat and future jazz luminaries: Atjazz, Tobias Meggle, Slope, King Britt... Atjazz, for his part, makes "Nowhere I Can Go" a lovely house track. Slope make "Wake Up" a simple guitar interlude with layered vocals, so that Hill provides her own chorus, while "Hard to Say" goes into jazz-electro. King Britt piles on the strings for the longing "Did I Do Wrong." But even other vocalists get their chance to offer input: Viktor Duplaix comes in for some house thump on "Paper Chase" and Sonar Kollektiv labelmate Georg Levin provides background vocals on the smooth-but-forgettable "Just Paradise." Alas, there's no partner mentioned on the hidden track at the end, an electro-house track, but my money's on Meitz.