The title of Bakar’s 2022 debut album, Nobody’s Home, reflects the slyly optimistic worldview that courses through his music: that shards of other people, cultures and sounds can be assembled into a roadmap that will help all of us find our place in the world. Born Abubakar Baker Shariff-Farr in London in 1994, Bakar is a master synthesist, his airy, conversational writing packed with borrowed phrases and relics of lives not lived. On songs like “Good News”, the tension between a casual pose and naked yearning gives Bakar’s music its unique atmosphere, where the stakes can be radically raised or lowered at any moment.