As much as we like The Beastie Boys here – and, really, we do – we can't help wishing that they'd pull their bloody finger out a bit. It's been three years since the last Beastie Boys album was released – and nine since the last belter – and their new album, The Mix-Up, hasn't even got any vocals on it.

The Mix-Up has been widely touted as the first full-length, all-new, all-original instrumental Beastie Boys album which, as anyone who owns The In Sound From Way Out will know, is a mixed blessing. Although The Beastie Boys can bash out a superior 1970s copshow theme-tune at the drop of a hat, their instrumentals aren't a patch on tunes that they actually rap on – so what's The Mix-Up actually like? Well, based on the videos for Off The Grid and The Rat Cage, it's slightly interesting, fairly nondescript and vaguely over-long. But, hey, these Beastie Boys cuts from The Mix-Up are certainly worth a listen at the very least – and we can all count our lucky stars that The Mix-Up isn't Country Mike's Greatest Hits.

Watch The Beastie Boys Off The Grid video

Watch The Beastie Boys The Rat Cage video