After being supremely underwhelmed by N*E*R*D’s performance at Glastonbury Festival in 2009 and appalled at the band’s behaviour following the plug being pulled on them for running over their time slot, I approached their new album with trepidation.

However that trepidation was unnecessary, as Nothing is N*E*R*D’s strongest album since In Search Of… . Lead single ‘Hypnotize U’, produced by Daft Punk, is a brilliant piece of electro-funk and is surrounded by tracks taking in every influence from jazz, R&B, pop and further doses of funk.

Whether this brilliant album will transfer onto stage as well as it plays on stereo is another matter altogether. In the meantime the volume on the stereo is turned up full for this one.