The Swedish hyperpop artist’s first studio album uses the euphoric sounds of trance, rave, and ’90s Eurodance as a springboard for exploring ideas of honesty and artifice. After impulsively drunk-DMing PC Music founder A. G. Cook one night, the Swedish musician born Naomi Namasenda became the first Black artist signed to the era-defining hyperpop label in 2020. There, the former punk rocker turned club kid released her 2021 debut mixtape Unlimited Ammo and began to trust her own ear for sincerely synthetic electropop. Five years later, Namasenda’s first studio album arrives by way of YEAR0001—the Stockholm label previously associated with Bladee and Yung Lean—after she parted ways with PC Music in 2023. Produced by Medium (the Swedish duo of Hannes Roovers and Isac Hördegård), Limbo uses the euphoric sounds of trance, rave, and ’90s Eurodance as a springboard for exploring ideas of honesty and artifice—concepts that, in Namasenda’s world, aren’t as opposed as you might think. Beneath the sparkly veneer of songs like “Alright” and “Heaven” are candid lyrics about the pressure to be perfect in a world of ever-more-ridiculously unrealistic expectations and musings on the many ways we perform ourselves. She’s licking spilled Bacardi off the sticky floor at sunrise on the serotonin-spiked “Bad Love” and chirping “I like the way you fake it” on the hook of the trance-y “Miami Crest.” With looksmaxxers, Love Island bimbos, and the Clermont twins as her muses, Namasenda dives into the illusion and locates the truth.