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Black Star

Amaarae

Black Star

Third full-length release from the New York, based Ghanaian R&B / Afro-fusion singer Ama Serwah Genfi

ADM rating[?]

7.2

Label
Interscope
UK Release date
08/08/2025
US Release date
08/08/2025
  1. 8.8 |   Pitchfork

    NEW The Ghanaian American singer’s latest album is a celebration of Black diasporic dance music—and a hedonistic, pleasure-soaked victory lap for a star at the peak of her powers
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  2. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    NEW With a sleek dancefloor-facing sound, the Ghanaian American singer is deliriously in thrall to wealth and celebrity – but most of all love
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  3. 8.0 |   NME

    NEW Amaarae dives into love, lust and digital excess – and it’s a wild, hypnotic ride
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  4. 8.0 |   Clash

    NEW It completes Amaarae’s transition from a fringe Alté artist to a future-pop icon in the making
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  5. 7.0 |   The Quietus

    NEW This isn’t a pristine album. It mutates, glitches, repeats itself
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  6. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    NEW Amaarae’s third album has moments of truly sublime pop magic, but only once you get past its early bloodlessness
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