Mohombi is a 23-year-old singer, writer and producer with half Swedish, half African heritage. Mohombi delivers a fresh, irresistible party sound he calls Afro-Viking. “It’s music that sounds like my story,” he says, and what a story his is: this son of an African King-cum-politician escaped war torn Congo in his early teens, relocated to Stockholm where he tasted musical success for the first time then, before hanging out with friends in LA, where he was almost instantly talent spotted by fellow semi-Swede and super producer RedOne (Lady Gaga, Usher, Lil Jon). The first album features guest spots from Nelly and Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger.  There’s a 90s rave dance feel to tunes like ‘Dirty Situation’ and ‘Coconut Tree’ - reference points that feel like Haddaway, Dr Albarn and Ace Of Base but not in an angular, post-ironic Hoxton-obsessed sort of way. The joyous, celebratory spirit that fuelled all those hits back in the day is splashed across these tunes like the surf up your legs on a sunset beach walk. As Mohombi explains, while his new material takes a big leap forward, it’s not even that different in spirit from what he used to knock out with his brother. “That’s what makes it so honest for me,” he says. “The motion and the rhythm are really African - rhythmic, dancey, but what we tried to do was merge the African feel with 90s words and melodies. “It feels like my life is all about movement,” Mohombi says. “I don’t know where I’ll end up. Maybe nowhere, maybe everywhere.” It’s hard to listen to his songs and not feel that ‘everywhere’ is the only option. “It’s ‘the long road’, as we say in Congo,” Mohombi says. “A bumpy ride, but an exciting one.”