“Shinee’s back,” the band sang in their 2012 single Sherlock and 2013’s Dream Girl and in 2021, they are indeed back – from a break after members served in the military service in South Korea, an obligation that has often proved career-ending for K-pop boy bands.

As if fulfilling their own prophecy, Shinee, who stylise their name as “SHINee”, ended a nearly three-year hiatus from releasing new music on Monday with the launch of a new album, Don’t Call Me.