In 2020, Naomi Namasenda became the first Black artist signed to PC Music. A.G. Cook ’s British Isle of misfit toys had, over the better part of a decade, curated a distinctive visual sensibility that was neon, plastic, and predominantly white. Namasenda appeared on the cover of 2021’s Unlimited Ammo as a femme fatale straight out of The Matrix , a leather catsuit clinging to her body. But the mixtape never fully unloaded its clip —or made a strong case for who this enigmatic, Sweden-born electropop artist was meant to be beyond the latest vehicle for new Cook productions. The bubblegum bass just wasn’t banging.

Not so on Limbo , Namasenda’s proper debut, which is coming out on YEAR0001 after she parted ways with PC Music in 2023.…