The omens were good. ‘God Gave Me Feet For Dancing’, the lead single from Ezra Collective’s wildly anticipated third album Dance, No One’s Watching, has a classy, funky, you’ve-got-to-move-to-this vibe, augmented by vocal from soul jazz diva Yasmin Lacey (‘Give me high life/give me good times,’ she sighs) and the sort of louche, liquid horn playing that helped the London quintet nab last year’s Mercury Prize. The bar for more dance-floor focused fun was duly set high – and for the most part, Dance… delivers.

Folding in influences including Chicago house and Sierre Leone’s palm wine music into the trademark mix of Afrobeat, highlife, calypso, reggae and jazz, its 19 tracks – including four brief interlocking ‘acts’ – roll into each other as smoothly as a DJ crossfading sources on a clubfloor. But while guests including Olivia Dean, Moonchild Sanelly and Lacey sing our hands into the air, and Joe Armon-Jones’ keys wig-outs pulse with psychedelic verve, particularly on a cover of Fela’s ‘Expensive Shit’, there’s also a stylised, self-conscious feel to several tracks. No matter. Dance anyway.