This is what all Peel Sessions sounded like.
That or Diblo Dibala.
I tried to do a Soukous style guitar thing once. Ended up sounding like the Housemartins. Attempted a Violent Femmes type number which came out more like The Cure. Dire Straits – nearer to Echo & The Bunnymen.
Incompetence is a greatly underestimated as a route to originality.