Fountain Baby

Amaarae’s second full album, 2023’s Fountain Baby, builds easily on the strengths showcased on The Angel You Don’t Know, providing a kaleidoscopic and immediately engaging approach to worldwide 21st century music in a variety of forms, touching on everything from hyperpop’s driven extremities to raucous pop-punk to afrobeat exuberance. Her precise voice lands just so each time, whether on the cascading flow of beats on “Co-Star,” the synth-pop tinged pulse of “Sociopathic Dance Queen” or the concluding epic rock build of “Come Home To God.”