On the album Almost Classic, POING pays a visit to the classical repertoire: music of Mahler and Tchaikovsky is arranged by the musicians, or recomposed by the contemporary composers Olav Anton Thommessen and Eivind Buene. In Eivind Buene’s Mahler Mixtapes, Mahler’s songs are sung by the musicians in the trio, with their ordinary voices far from the classical ideal.