Jazz and metal might not appear at first to be the most obvious bedfellows, but leave it to a bunch of Norwegians to make it actually work.

One One One is Shining’s conclusion to the Blackjazz trilogy and their seventh album, and finds the band on a rare pop tip. While their standout ‘In The Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be  A Monster’ threw them into a soup of influences, One One One shows the band pitting their musical smarts against a (theoretically) much more simplistic mode.

‘I Won’t Forget’ is the album’s first single, and is accompanied by a suitably Brazil-esque video that pushes the Norwegians into some kind of dystopian future-scape. Riffing as if their lives depended on it, the band muster up a sound something like Don Caballero doing a rendition of a Queens of the Stone Age track with Rob Zombie on vocals, and that can’t be a bad thing.

One One One is set for release on Prosthetic on June 4th.

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