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Future Perfect

Jill Knight

WobyMusik Records, 1998

REVIEW BY: Jason Warburg

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 09/08/1999

San Luis Obispo, California native Jill Knight might just be themost conspicuously talented singer-songwriter-arranger-producer youhaven't heard of -- yet.

Gifted with a rich, elemental voice that crests and tumbles likea waterfall, she employs it masterfully on this self-publisheddebut album. The eclectic batch of folk-pop she moves through hereranges from engaging acoustic ballads to smartly conceived rocksongs, with small touches of jazz and country thrown in forseasoning.

Equally as impressive as her voice and musical range, though, isKnight's knack for crafting witty, evocative and often passionatelyrics. Take the album's opener, "Jeans" for example. Building offa slumbering, funky backbeat, her voice becomes more and moreplayful each time she passes by the clever chorus:

"Wear me like your favorite pair of jeans