He's already made a sonic departure from Stereophonics with his new band Far From Saints. But now singer Kelly Jones has announced he's to travel to a remote part of Scandinavia in the Spring to make a "weird, spiritual" album.
Speaking on DJ Daniel O'Connell's Radio X show yesterday the Cwmaman-born 48-year-old revealed that he's booked a week at an "isolated" studio on the Norwegian coast in which to make a new solo record. And it's set to be even further away musically from what his fans are used to hearing.
"I've been writing it on a piano and bunch of synths," said Kelly. "It's a spiritual, weird sounding record.