Simulacre is the debut album by Brazilian singer and drag queen Potyguara Bardo, released on August 9, 2018. Recorded at the DoSol Studio, between March and June 2018, the album was produced by Walter Nazário and Mateus Tinoco, bringing a psychedelic sound, with guest appearances by Kaya Conky and the band Luísa e os Alquimistas . Você Não Existe, the album's lead single, was released a year earlier, in 2017. Potyguara's album was well praised by critics. To Miojo Indie, Cleber Facchi praised the album: "Compositions that move between existential crises and the need for the lyrical self to find itself creatively, a proposal that makes Potyguara Bardo's debut one of the most inventive (and crazy) works that have emerged in the last few months." Arthur Lins on Medium writes an explanation about the psychedelia and the emergence of each song on the album: "Let's be like Her. That's what Potyguara tells us and she wants us nothing less than a First Bard. You don't exist, and neither do I. That's what we concluded when, from the highest sphere of Psyche, the Great Mind, we looked down. And it's all there, explained and detailed in beautiful lyrics in a reggae rhythm that soon converts to psytrance." The album was voted one of the best albums by LGBTQ artists in 2018 by Híbrida magazine, being described as "a fun, unique, promising and provocative sound, which doses reflection and irreverence in the right measure." The blog Tenho Mais Discos Que Amigos, summarized the record as