Malawi, Africa-born singer Esau Mwamwaya along with Johan Karlberg and DJ Tron from U.K. DJ/production duo Radioclit successfully blend rootsy African pop with Karlberg and Tron’s self-coined “ghetto pop” (a mesh of British grime, Dirty South hip-hop and Baltimore club) to birth this outstanding and innovative debut album that rocks, grooves and soothes all at once. Whether they’re looping organically recorded finger-snaps with plucked violin strings under Mwamwaya’s layered vocals sung in Malawian tongue (“Yalira”), or keyboarding early ‘80s-sounding synth-pop over similarly antiquated beats (“Chalo”), or fusing Brazilian funk with dubstep (“Angonde”), they manage to retain a unique signature sound that ties it all together. The title track is an animated hit that rings around samples of vintage foreign cinema scores with a fun pots-and-pans percussion and a cameo by Vampire Weekend’s frontman Ezra Koenig. “Rain Dance” is another standout that makes good use of a rain stick and controlled bits of drum-circle rhythms as well as the sultry-voiced M.I.A. chiming in with some very fitting guest vocals.