Jerilynn Patton is a musician from Gary, Indiana, who has roughly the same relationship to footwork that DJ Shadow has to hip-hop. What they both do is rooted without doubt in a genre while going so far beyond its borders as to leave that genre behind. Black Origami is one of the most accurately named albums—what was dance music in the hands of people like RP Boo smacking an MPC, Jlin turns into ever more elaborations and curlicues that leave swing and funk behind. What Jlin creates is a chain of details, a record of movements outside the center. If footwork was the beat, Jlin’s music is the dancer, the response, the reverberation.

– Sasha Frere-Jones