This came out in 2005 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
On your list of desert island discs, filling the drum ‘n’ bass slot is a no-brainer: Roni Size and Reprazent’s seminal, Mercury Prize-winning 1997 set New Forms is all you’ll ever need.
Which is a nice way of saying that almost no one — even Size himself — is likely to make a disc that tops it. But here’s the good news: Return To V is as close as he’s come yet. We have no idea where V is, but it’s clearly a landscape of twitchy skittering breakbeats, moody rumbling synths, head-trippy samples and guest vocals from a rotating cast that includes human beatbox Rahzel. Admittedly, at 70-plus minutes it’s a bit long and samey-sounding after a while. But even if Return to V isn’t the return to greatness Size’s fans have been awaiting, at least it hits the halfway point.