it would be a sort of homage to Ornette Coleman's album Free Jazz. It was meant to be a sort of metal-jazz backwards thing. We recorded it anyway, but Death Jazz is probably not the best term for it: it's more free post-rock or something like that." On 16 March 2009, the band released the mini album as a B-side to the double A-side single "Jennifer"/"Tramp", both A-side tracks being taken from the Queenie Was a Blonde album. The album was reviewed by the NME who noted "Brighton four-piece Vile Imbeciles show scant regard for the traditions of the recorded format" in their decision to release an album as a B-side to a single and gave the album 8 out of 10 stating the work was "the manifestation of a magnificent perversion". The videos to both A-side singles were shot on location in the disused bank Reinhold was living in. D Is for W In October 2009, shortly after the band had begun recording their fourth studio album, Hair announced his retirement from music to launch his new company Mr Hair's Pie Factory. Early 2010 saw the band's return to live performances playing completely new material as a five-piece with the addition of Deen Lim on bass and Liam Dowling on synths, with all five members of the group sharing vocals. Throughout 2010 and 2011, the already largely recorded album found itself in a constant state of editing and re-recording, with the band using a total of four producers. The album was finally released on 3 October 2011 as a joint production by Cameron Devlin & former Pink Grease songwriter Steven Santa Cruz, and was named "D Is for W" after a complaint "D.. No, D. D as in W... No, D. D for W... D is for W" Huxley overheard and "completely understood" whilst working in the complaints department of an Insurance company. The album was described by Huxley as both born of a "severe inner struggle" and "positive and perfect". The album received positive reviews with Uncut describing it as a "Hyper-intense and malevolent, brilliantly well-crafted, math-funk/death jazz hybrid that suggests a cerebral aneurysm reaching critical point" and MOJO calling it "pop that simultaneously grates, intrigues and beguiles". Return to a three piece and unannounced hiatus Throughout 2012, VI again underwent major line-up changes. Keyboardist/guitarist Liam Dowling's departure from the group was announced via the band's website in