UK artist and producer skaiwater pushes their genre-fluid sound further on femme fatale, a 12-track album shaped by dancehall, Afrobeats, Caribbean rhythms and digitally driven rap production.
Born to a British-Jamaican mother and Sierra Leonean father, skaiwater builds the record around a cross-cultural perspective that avoids settling into one scene or genre.
If creation began with attraction (energy pulling energy), lust, seduction, and mystique are the same feminine attracting forces that tie back to the creation of everything. That’s why the album is called Femme Fatale.
Young Thug’s influence runs through the project too. HITUNES takes its name from Thug’s unreleased debut-album title, while its artwork reworks the Barter 6 cover in pink.
Focus track ella leans into dancehall rhythm, combining fast-moving percussion with skaiwater’s elastic vocal delivery and high-energy production.
The album follows Wonderful and a growing network of collaborations that includes Skepta, Lil Nas X, PinkPantheress, BKThaRula and Karrahbooo, alongside production work for CORTIS, Lancey Foux and Tezzus.
With femme fatale, skaiwater treats genre less as a category than a production toolkit, allowing rap, Caribbean rhythm and digital pop to move inside the same system.