Nigerian-British wordsmith Joshua Idehen, who’s based in Stockholm, has teamed up with musician Ludwig Parment for this extraordinary album, one of the year’s finest by far. From its audacious title to its wilfully wild, poignant and catchy genre mashups, Idehen’s brilliant solo debut is – no exaggeration to say this – part of the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron and Public Enemy. He’s that dazzling.

Opener ‘You Wanna Dance Or What’ and single ‘It Always Was’ celebrate the dancefloor as sacred spaces, but with none of the clichés we’ve come to associate with this. It’s not “hands in the air” euphoria that Idehen deals in, it’s more of a tentative shuffle in the corner, trying not to overthink. Musically, he’s pitched between disco samples and two-step, drum ‘n’ bass and gospel.

But he’s at his most interesting when he lets his experimental side seep out. The peerless, genius ‘Mum Does The Washing’, with its nod to ‘If I Were A Rich Man’ in the warped ,whirling backing vocals, meditates on society through the prism of feudalism, surrealism and mansplaining, amongst other things. It’s hilarious and pointed, always circling back to the fact that it’s his mum doing unpaid labour. Another track, ‘Brother’, suggests we “take our pain and make a church of it”, pondering out loud if it’s “masculinity or trauma” that has messed him up. Even ‘My Love’ with its faint sun bleached piano ostinato, rejects the love clichés of Lauryn Hill et al. This is love that starts with a brain, not heart, connection.

All of which would be incredibly worthy, were Idehen not possessed with a sense of absurdist humour and a raised eyebrow. Leave Hallmark platitudes to lesser songwriters, these beautiful anthems are steeped in the everyday, with a touch of alchemy in the toolkit.