The Space Jamie Woon Leaves Around a Note

Jamie Woon’s debut album Mirrorwriting arrived in 2011 and immediately made clear that he understood something most contemporary R&B producers had forgotten: silence is part of the track. Lady Luck had that quality in concentrated form—a voice doing most of the emotional lifting over production that knew precisely when to step back. He’d collaborated with Burial, which tells you where his instincts lived: somewhere between warmth and unease, between a late-night soul record and something you’d hear in an empty building.