It's unfortunate for any band to peak as obviously as Jimmy Eat World did with their Bleed American album, and it's especially unfortunate for fans waiting for a return to form when a band blatantly ignore the commercial success of their good stuff and just keep doing what they want. But hey, at least no one can accuse them of selling out.

Opening track, Disintegration, is almost eight minutes of muscular but messy rock that succeeds in sounding pretty unique, but at the same time completely unremarkable. Stomping along like some kind of emotionless robot, it's more of a filler than a lead track - which is maybe why they didn't just name the EP after it. Over sounds a bit more like a song, but Jimmy Eat World just come across sounding like an emo band trying to pretend they're not emo by trying to make their music - particularly vocally - as emotionless as possible. The result? A song that only creates a reaction by being disappointingly empty.

Finally, with the third track, they start sounding like the great band they are: Closer is an anthem with a tune, a lot of rocking out and a good dose of edgy individuality, and Half Right is a beautiful cover version, making it reason two of two why to buy this EP. The remix of Drugs Or Me, on the other hand, is a reason to program your CD player so you don't have to risk this disaster coming on when the previous tracks have finished.

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Mercury Prize 2009 nominees