Album Review: Amaarae’s ‘Fountain Baby’ 

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Written by Kinyua Mwangi

After a long wait, Ghanaian American artist Amaarae has released her sophomore album ‘Fountain Baby’. 

She released this 14-track album a few days ago and it brings forth Amaarae’s creativity in it all. 

"Fountain Baby" has a more ambitious and carefree vibe. Her tracks here draw influence from left-leaning US hit music, including Netunes, Missy Elliott, and Timbaland. 
In addition, the album is onto a wider range of musical influences, including humid dancehall, flamenco, breathy dream pop, Japanese folk, sensuous highlife, and heady trap.

Amaarae's delicate and airy vocals, as heard in Aquamarie Luvs Ecstasy, have a whimsical quality that rises above everything else. 
The diverse range of her music is demonstrated by standouts like Co-Star, where she reflects love and romance, and low moments capturing violence and suicide. 
A glittering pop with surf guitars encompass the musical standout on each of the 14 tracks in this album. You can tell Afropop is her musical strength.
Amaarae sings of longing, hedonism, and the zodiac while her beautiful, wispy vocals dance over the magically produced hits all through this song. 

‘Fountain Baby’ bring her musical ambition with a personified seductive, glittering portrait of a boundless woman daring to dream. 
This album puts her as a promising star and one of the finest Ghanaian singers in the diaspora. 

Here is the full tracklist. 
Sex, Violence, Suicide
Princess Going Digital
Angels in Tibet
Water From Wine
Counterfeit
Disguise
Aquamarie Luvs Ecstasy
Sociopathic Dance Queen
Reckless & Sweet
Wasted Eyes
All My Love
Co-Star
Big Steppa
Come Home To God