Beyond his supple voice, Jordan Rakei is an equally focused songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer, lending a meticulous sense of unity to his digital-age R&B. His sonic signatures are as apparent in 2019’s slippery single “Mind’s Eye” as they are in the cosmic jazz flourishes of “Midnight Mischief” and the funkier turns of “Nerve,” which ambushes with the raw honesty of its chorus: “How can I find a reason to love you when I don’t love myself?” Before even releasing his 2016 debut album, Cloak, the London-based Australian had lent pleading guest vocals to Disclosure’s GRAMMYⓇ-nominated track “Masterpiece.” Gravity-defying and silky smooth, his work is like a flying carpet cut from celestial cloth.