On Fountain Baby, Ghanaian-American singer-songwriter and producer Amaarae levels up. Following on from an impressive few years of releases and feature verses, Fountain Baby is a net cast wide across the world of pop music. Synthpop, southern rap, bouncy afrobeats, and even indie and punk all sound comfortable alongside each other, sometimes even on the same track. Her distinctive falsetto vocals act as the common link among them, floating in the air above crooning guitars and glistening piano keys. Swelling orchestras turn the dancefloor into a confessional, where Amaarae’s hushed, intimate desires take on an urgency and weight of critical importance. Impressive in its universality, and thoughtful in its detail and construction, Fountain Baby is the future of pop – here, now.