What purpose, one wonders, does this release serve? It could be argued that the album this EP tinkers with the tracks from, last year’s Where Do We Go From Here?, was already something of a ‘remix’ record — curating the characteristic elements from Asking Alexandria’s rollercoaster 15-year career into something new. So why follow it up with this approach? Because founding guitarist Ben Bruce’s answer to the question posed by that record was leaving AA to spend more time with his family. So perhaps this serves as something of a stop-gap as the band recalibrates after losing their primary songwriter? Could this be a sign of what’s to come? Of absolute stylistic abandon. Of being the devil-may-care musical operators they’ve always threatened to be, but never quite managed — a...