Amaarae – ‘Black Star’ review: a dizzying pop fantasia that flips the script

Amaarae Blends Desire With Ambition, and 8 More New Songs

Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here, and sign up for The Amplifier, a weekly guide to new and old songs. Amaarae, ‘Girlie-Pop!’ The Ghanaian American songwriter Amaarae trades in rhythm and lust. Her vocals are piping soprano tones, delivered close to the ear or microphone; her messages merge …

Amaarae – ‘Black Star’ review: a dizzying pop fantasia that flips the script

Amaarae has always been that girl: unbothered by rules, genre lines or whether her voice was ever ‘conventionally’ suited to the spotlight. Her 2020 debut album ‘The Angel You Don’t Know’ blurred Afrobeats, alté and punkish electronics with heady confidence, and its sequel – 2023’s ‘Fountain Baby’ – layered Arabic scales and R&B into surreal pop, cementing her as Ghana’s avant-garde pop juggernaut. READ MORE: Tommy WÁ’s open-hearted folk touche…

Amaarae, PARTYOF2 & Sasha Keable In Wonderlist

Amaarae shares an album of the summer contender, PARTYOF2 bend hip hop’s rulebook and Sasha Keable keeps it soulful: it’s Wonderlist. Photography by Jenna Marsh Amaarae – BLACK STAR Ghanian-American superstar Amaarae cements her name as one of global pop’s most evocative and visionary talents with excellent new album, BLACK STAR. Boasting features from Bree Runway, PinkPantheress, Naomi Campbell and more, the record is sonically wide-spanning …

Amaarae Releases Hedonistic New Album 'Black Star' Feat. PinkPantheress, Charlie Wilson, & Naomi Campbell: Stream

Two years ago, the Ghanian-American pop artist Amaarae turned a lot of heads with her album Fountain Baby. Today, she follows that LP with Black Star, a new record that sure sounds like a breakthrough. On Black Star, Amaarae works to combine all sorts of versions of party music from across the planet. If you know the sounds that she’s playing with, Black Star works as a deep and fascinating statement on the cultural evolution of the African dias…

Amaarae is a proud 'BLACK STAR' her latest album

Ghanaian genre-bender Amaarae has delivered her most ambitious project yet with BLACK STAR, a dizzying pop fantasia that flips the script. Following the critical acclaim of 2023's Fountain Baby, the third studio album finds Amaarae in a completely different headspace, more confident, more playful, and ready to push boundaries even further. Black Star takes a more playful approach, drawing inspiration from Ghanaian roots while embracing global po…

Amaarae Reinvents Music History On The ‘BLACK STAR’ Album

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