MIA, MATANGI

Stoked based on what I've heard.

http://m.pitchfork.com/news/48832-listen-to-a-new-mia-track-attention-which-she-leaked-to-a-persistent-group-of-fans/

well hey, this is kind of in the vein of the SBTRKT remix of "XXXO"

obv that means it's awesome

random question: how is sbtrkt pronounced?

I say "subtract"

Subber Ricketts

oh i never thought of that, that makes sense

Sobriquets

Lol at Stereogum haters

what have we heard besides that and possibly bad girls? i thought it's been pushed back for like... indefinitely

not as in its not coming out, just.. no release date yet.

There's also this:

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=EXWs9P6ykHE&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DEXWs9P6ykHE

Need to revisit "Bad Girls," don't remember liking it

"Come Walk With Me" has some strong "Big Mouth" vibes coming off of it

Apparently her record label is delaying the album because it is too happy-sounding

Someone c/p the quote abt the label telling her they'd made her out to be public enemy no 1, they couldn't release these songs

I hope she turned in a goop-style album abt privileged brentwood yummy mummyhood over danja offcuts, tbh that's the album I want to hear from her

8 minutes of new bits and bobs

http://www.nme.com/news/mia/69001

one minute in and I like this a lot, shocker

Yeah, it's pretty great. Can't wait for the album.

shit gets real at 6:17

Bad scenes in MIA land

M.I.A ‏@MIAuniverse

BEN you cant take my son away from me "The mother" . Just because you have money doesnt mean you hav ethe right .

M.I.A ‏@MIAuniverse

. WOW. THE BRONFMANS WANT TO TAKE MY CHILD AWAY FROM ME . WHAT KIND OF SHIT IS THAT ? THEY NEVER SEE HIM .

Whoa boy

I'd be distraught if the illuminati were trying to steal my child too.

"The mother"

Bet her lawyer's really loving this little outburst

She is so dumb. A talented artist, but dumb.

good 'ol twitter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE57Hglvm6I

I am not 100% sure what I think of "Attention"

It's more engaging than the dirge section of Maya but it feels unfinished.

Poor ickhyd

http://www.factmag.com/2013/06/17/m-i-a-to-premiere-new-single-bring-the-noize-on-monday/

okay so this is FUCKING GREAT

https://soundcloud.com/miauk/bring-the-noize

oic Fact went back and added that soundcloud since I last saw it.

so this album is really happening huh

http://pitchfork.com/news/51395-listen-to-a-new-mia-song/

"Only 1 U" is about 2:00 into this soundcloud stream. Good track imo.

Based off of everything I've heard so far, this forthcoming album seems like a significant step up from Maya

"i'm so tangy, people call me mathangi"

*turns off*

i like the new track but don't know if it's a "step up". the thing about MAYA is that it's secretly amazing.

not with that horribly draggy middle section

I hope you're not knocking Teqkilla, because that's one of the best aural evocations of being drunk I've heard.

Why would I knock the best song on the album?

Teqkilla is great. It goes beyond evoking drunkenness. Those ultra-compressed analog synth stabs seem designed to induce hangovers.

Lovalot is where it all falls apart.

The off-kilter Opal sample "Lovalot" is my favorite thing on the album

sample on*

yeah "Lovalot" rules too

"Story To Be Told" through "It Iz What It Iz" is straight up intolerable though

naw those songs are cool as a mid-album respite. only track on Maya I don't fux with is the Sleigh Bells one

more like Sleigh Balls amirite

lovealot is rad.

i disagree with DJP on this one. i love when it gets lazy and meandering between Lovalot and It iz what it iz. Just overall, I love the sounds she is working with, like retrofuturist 90s internet stuff, return of the very recently repressed. It sounds dystopian, but like M.I.A. has found a way to thrive in this anarchic digital future.

i at least half like those watery midsection tracks too, though i've never associated them with yesterday's internet futurism. they're not great by any means, but pleasant enough, half catchy, and a welcome respite from the noize.

just because it's clangy and anarchic and the internet today is much smoother and more functional than, i think, people would have imagined just ten years ago.

there is almost never a need for respite from noize

lol, would once have called that my philosophy. we soften. (have come around to loving that savages album though.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObI5BZ4-HGw

i thought that song was decent/tolerable until i heard spectral display's original version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMVX5EH4lvs

i like m.i.a.'s version better but i enjoy both versions.

I find that mind-boggling

well, that live version isn't even the best version of that song on youtube, which also hosts the studio version. also, M.I.A.4lyfe

happily admit that spectral display's original slays MIA's cover and dances on its fallen ass, but i don't hate the attempt.

thread needs this image:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/05/30/magazine/30mia-homepage/30mia-homepage-articleLarge.jpg

well, that live version isn't even the best version of that song on youtube

sounds exactly the same to me (sound quality aside)? pretty sure it's mimed

Huh. I thought it sounded less sharp.

woah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z65G0kwPSqc

what was that video?

oh.. shit, a trail for an upcoming(?) Pulse films doc about MIA. interviews with her family, Kanye, Spike Jonze etc.

looks like it won't be coming any time soon

http://www.nme.com/news/mia/71312

I'd probably become disillusioned by her too if I had to actually spend time with her tbf.

... that reads like he's pissed with her label, not her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_11uQVI21mQ'

the beginning of this is horrible and then it suddenly becomes super awesome

looks like that film trailer is back up, even though the film may not be coming out now.

http://www.stereogum.com/1399922/watch-the-blacklisted-m-i-a-documentary-trailer/video/

Intro reminded me of Blur's Charmless Man. Does the rest of the song have Mac computer samples? Some of the 'snares' sound like the volume clicks when you turn it up. Also a snapshot sound somewhere in there?

great lyrics!

Yes, for the 'snares'! I'm rooting for this song to become a legitimate hit.

#MATANGI TRACKLIST - ALBUM NOV 5
1. Karmageddon
2. MATANGI
3. Only 1 U
4. Warriors
5. Come Walk With Me
6. aTENTion
7. Exodus
8. Bad Girls
9. Boom Skit
10. Double Bubble Trouble
11. Y.a.l.a
12. Bring The Noize
13. Lights
14. Know It Ain't Right
15. Sexodus

karmageddon
AND
sexodus

MIA is more into bad puns than i thought

this is her first album with a title, track, correct?

wish a decent version of this was going to be on it. unless it.. is by another name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AEgEA4ocyg

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/19/mia-interview-super-bowl-google

In August, I was sent an early copy of the album, but after a couple of days had it whipped away from me, "for minor tweaking". I didn't get it back until two months later, and it was noticeably different. There's a bit of everything, from Hindi punk rap to the self-referential Boom Skit about her time in America ("Brown girl, turn your shit down… Let you into Super Bowl, you try to steal Madonna's crown"), to the gorgeous lushness of Sexodus, a collaboration with The Weeknd. Then it was whipped away again.

was it amazing? your description makes it sound really good.

ah that's a quote, my bad. shoulda put " " around it. also interesting; Sexodus was offered to Madonna and she didn't want it!

Her X-Factor audition plan is hilarious

some1 edit this thread title so its searchable plz

come walk w/ me is destined to be the trailer music for the adaptation of dave eggers 'the circle' imo

http://www.youtube.com/user/MIAVEVO/videos

This one may take a few listens to sink in.

Really? I loved it right away.

I did not, but it's MIA so she deserves the extra effort.

Yeah I love this.

This album is straight fire. Beautiful songs.

word. just bangers on bangers.

Also impressed w/ this.

"( also, if you tilt down your computer screen, the album cover becomes a normal photograph? fuggin cool)"

never noticed that before !

listened to 2 tracks and loving it.

hearty irl lols @ the end of "Y.A.L.A."

haha yes

"( also, if you tilt down your computer screen, the album cover becomes a normal photograph? fuggin cool)"

i don't think this is true idk this is not happening for me

I'm so tangy people call me Matangi

I gave up on MIA around Kala, which I never enjoyed for dubious reasons, but this is fire and I'll revisit her whole catalogue now.

Haven't played the new one yet (lol self restraint) but IMO Kala is her best if the three released albums

Kala has some amazing moments but is prob my least favorite of her albums overall. Too many dirges. I should revisit tho.

More dirges than Maya? No way. I agree with DJP that Kala is the best, but this new one may indeed be better. It feels more consistent overall. Still needs to sink in though.

Kala was my favorite going into this one, but this one might replace it. Can't say that yet, since I've only listened to it four times.

I really don't understand anyone whose favorite MIA album isn't Arular tbh.

I'm with kornrulez on this. Some great moments, a lot of eh - so far.

screen thing works for me.

Take a pic

what are the standout tracks? thinking more paper planes, galang, boyz, bad girls mia than pneumatic techno angry drill mia

"Come Walk With Me" is the standout of the whole album IMO

"You ain't gotta throw your hands in the air
Cause tonight we ain't actin' like we don't care
It's cool it takes two, I'm gonna still fux with you"

^^prob my favorite lyrics of anything this year

except for "Let's talk about gender, baby / let's talk about you and me"

I was enjoying Come Walk With Me until I twigged that the vocal hook is basically the same as The Charmless Man by Blur and now I don't know what to think.

what are the standout tracks? thinking more paper planes, galang, boyz, bad girls mia than pneumatic techno angry drill mia

Well the title track is almost identical to 'Boyz' so you're in luck there.

This album is kind of a mess but it's an enjoyable one, considerably more so than the last one which was just a drag. I was expecting The Weeknd collaboration to be the most obnoxious song ever written but it turned out to be pretty good.

wow this album is actually pretty good huh!

feel like the first half is a bit of a mess (apart from "warriors" which is excellent) and "come walk with me" was kind of awful, but it really takes off with "boom skit" - gets funnier, sharper, more self-aware, more scornful. beats sound as pissed off as she does.

lmao @ the shampoo interpolation! mdc you know one of the trax that never made the album actually sampled blur's "tender" (absolutely dreadful obv). reminding us all that she was in the SAME SCHOOL YEAR as justine frischmann

Yeah I think that lift is deliberate, I haven't paid too much attention but isn't she basically singing about having heard the song before?

looking through your instagram, looking for a pentagram
all i see is poor people, they should be on ghettogram
you don't get our underground, brofest to overground
fist pump, eat ham, even throw your dick around

^^DIPLO SHADE?

i think my standouts are "yala" and "bring the noize"

The payoff at the end of YALA is pretty sweet.

I really don't understand anyone whose favorite MIA album isn't Arular tbh.

arular is the better album but kala has higher highs

lol @ "you don't get our underground" alright m8

YALA is massive

actually the best lyric on this album is easily "my nan was a stan for imported liquor brands"

reminding us all that she was in the SAME SCHOOL YEAR as justine frischmann

actually wiki says justine is 44 and maya is 38, so not same school year. is this possible though? they were BFFs at college, a six years age gap seems a bit much for that?

"i sleep on my talent and i stand by it too" is an amazing line

I was expecting The Weeknd collaboration to be the most obnoxious song ever written but it turned out to be pretty good.

both of them are pretty good!

here's my initial, unconsidered reaction to the song "Matangi":

http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/images/GifGuide/dancing/bale2.gif

who are you about to murder

the beat

this is my second reaction:

http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/images/GifGuide/dancing/tumblr_lk54oh7tTt1qeot64.gif

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/04/arts/music/mia-and-julian-assange-on-live-video-come-to-terminal-5.html

Jon Pareles-

While it still packs a diverse wallop, “Matangi” also revisits many of M.I.A.’s past sources. Its lyrics present her more as a party animal than a political one, and the tracks settle at times for the conventions of current pop.

well, that's very inaccurate

This album is surprisingly fantastic. The songs are just so big and colourful, completely the opposite of the last album.

Agree with Stevie that Come Walk With Me is the standout after a couple of plays but honestly I don't think there's any weak songs on here.

I was taken aback by how much I got into "Exodus"

xp Exactly which conventions of current pop does she use here?

ppl thinking "come walk with me" is a standout in any way are INSANE imo, it's about the only thing here i have zero use for. flat vocals that really show up her lack of a singing voice (in a way that the weeknd tracks don't), lumbering melody that belongs in a britpop-era indie disco, grafted-on noisy bits that sound far less jolting than they should because she's doing similar things but better all over the rest of the album

only other kinda-dud is "aTENTion" which is just a bit annoying (oh and "bad girls" is as whatevzzz as it always was) but the rest is really superb

wow i'd lost interest in her to such an extent i didn't realise "bring the noize" has been out since JUNE :o

though despite the video being excellent it doesn't have the "my nan was a stan..." line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCkIYkaLBGs

aTENTion is rubbish.

ppl thinking "come walk with me" is a standout in any way are INSANE imo

http://31.media.tumblr.com/9293b8ec6029ecca840a5ea91aeca815/tumblr_mtweqahnXF1sjlldmo1_250.gif

lol

I was never a big "aTENTion" person but I think it fits well with the rest of the album

for "Come Walk With Me", I just pretend the intro doesn't exist and I enjoy it a lot more

Aw the first 1:30 or so is my favorite!

that's the only part of this that I feel is channeling the dreary parts of MAYA that I always skip over

does this have a physical copy release date?

I thought it was today UK/tomorrow US?

cool thanks! maybe my local store will have it on vinyl tomorrow.

it's funny listening to that Youtube stream, it'll go to an ad between songs and there's a 6/8-ish brostep beat that's a little corny but allllmost plausible as an M.I.A. intro.

the guitar in 'Know It Ain't Right' almost sounds like it could be a Tortoise sample?

i feel like such a lame because everyone else stans for "bad girls," but i just hate it

lex hates it too.

ok i feel a little better

i'm doing an article soon on "10 MIA singles way better than 'bad girls'"

Really? That makes you feel better?

not really

here's my initial, unconsidered reaction to the song "Matangi":

― the doleful cant of a bigot blinded by fear and hate (DJP), Monday, 4 November 2013 14:55 (8 hours ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhiJwfj0URs

Good stuff, this.

Lol stevie

Not feeling it. Kinda bummed.

that's too bad, I want everyone to dig this as much as I do

I like "Bad Girls" and "Warriors" and parts of a few other songs.

"Bad Girls" is like "Applause" in that it just sounds like a generic example of that artist's work that's solid but offers no surprises. It was disappointing as a lead single but doesn't stick out in a bad way in the middle of an album.

I agree it's pretty much M.I.A.-by-numbers, but on this album that makes it a standout track.

naw...

Rev - I trust your taste and discernment. What track should I revisit, and what should I be listening for? I'm not yanking your chain, but genuinely bummed that this isn't connecting at all when I've really enjoyed her work in the past. Maybe I need a new way in.

6.5

lex hates it too.

i don't hate it, it's just pretty boring and generic as rev says. more baffled by people freaking out over it than over worse mia songs that at least have character.

i'm doing an article soon on "10 MIA singles way better than 'bad girls'"

this would be...all of them i think? apart from the singles off maya that weren't "xxxo"

XXXO is worse than Bad Girls as well. Bad Girls isn't actually a bad song per se, but it just screams of an obvious lack of effort by everyone concerned.

mia singles, ranked:

galang
bird flu
y.a.l.a.
bring the noize
bucky done gun
paper planes
hombre
sunshowers
jimmy
boyz
xxxo
teqkilla
bad girls
born free
it takes a muscle
come walk with me
tell me why
internet connection
steppin' up

- i had no idea there were so many singles from maya. i couldn't remember half of them, reminding myself was a SLOG - everything beneath "born free" is even worse than i remember
- i prefer remixes to many of her originals - dj marlboro on "bucky done gun" would probably be my #1, the salt'n'pepa version of "sunshowers" would bump it up a few, same for the riton rerub of "xxxo", nicki minaj on "teqkilla" adds a small degree of much-needed focus
- my actual favourite m.i.a. songs appear to be deep cuts anyway: "hussel", "10 dollar", "bamboo banga", "pull up the people", "uraqt", "hit that"
- anyway the point is that "bad girls" is pretty mediocre

There's an enormous gulf in quality between the top half and bottom half of that list (everything from XXXO down). I don't even know what 'Internet Connection' actually is.

Boyz >>> most of her singles though (maybe everything except Galang and the other big Kala singles).

i never really got very excited about "boyz", it just made me want to go back to "bird flu" instead

the list makes mia seem way worse than she is but only because (so wikipedia told me) there were a zillion singles off her worst album and they really are as bad as you remember

Bamboo banga was the last MIA I got crazy hype about and couldn't stop listening to

listened to the first half of kala on the way to uni this morning - the appeal of "boyz" is chiefly in its monstrous and thrilling percussion

yeah, boyz has aged well - i actually like it more now. i love Mango Pickle Down River unreservedly (always have)

(i will say that after listening to Matangi again this morning i'm warming to it, rate it at least higher than MAYA)

I've always quite liked Bird Flu it's kind of walking pace and not quite danceable enough as her best tracks - Boyz is like a better version of the whole big-wall-of-drums thing, there's so much momentum and bounce to it.

Bird Flu rules because of all of the polyrhythms

So on first pass, this seems really good. I'm not sure it does anything she hasn't before, but it's kind of like a classic 4th album that way: summing up what she can do, and doing it as well as she ever has. (Thinking Lifes Rich Pageant or even Zep IV, e.g.)

"boyz" and "bird flu" are amazing. i will probably give this album a listen soon even tho "bring the noize" was not exactly thrilling and her last album was a mess.

I have twice this week talked to "industry types" who first castigated M.I.A. for putting out "bad music" and being "difficult to work with", then admitted that they haven't listened to anything since Kala and her reputation for "difficulty" is based on third/fourth/fifth-hand accounts >:(

Oh, and those accounts boiled down to "she yelled at the tea girl once", fuck offfff

Questlove has the best MIA story ever, I should see if I can find it

http://ladysugatits.tumblr.com/post/2720781970/questlove-on-m-i-a

Yelling at a tea girl is a good litmus test as to whether someone is a total dick though.

lol @ that story (but the q-tip part is even better)

Your dickishness will be measured by how well you treat your tea girl

really enjoyed the first half of this album a lot. i like how desiccated it sounds

card carrying maya fan here tho

me too, on both counts. I'm surprised people on FB are saying "bangers" because the mix sounds claustrophobic and small, but in a nice way

Totally agreed there. Not huge at all.

is it possible that the extreme compression on Maya got dialed back a bit? There's a particular synth stab in "Teqkilla" that is pushed so hard in the mix that it instantly makes me feel like I'm hungover. And "Steppin' Up" feels like being assaulted with power tools.

I can't tell if this is a real change or just the result of listening to this on youtube.

I think feeling like you were being assaulted by power tools was the point of "Steppin' Up" (not my fave song) and "Teqkilla" was supposed to make you feel queasy and hungover (fukkin love this song)

well, that's certainly true. I think they achieved that by pushing the loudness to a certain extreme. It sounds like the overall signal levels on Matangi might not be pushed as hard. Perhaps a retreat in the loudness wars?

That quest story is a+

I wanted more beats like MAYA and I got'em. Arular remains my least favorite, and that one's a solid B.

Actually rly loving the flatness of the vocals in "Come Walk With Me" and also OSX volume button sounds and "Can we touch base, just to discuss agenda" haaaaaaa

Had this on in the car when I picked up the kids. My oldest is 9 now, and I have a video of him dancing to "Bird Flu" when he was 3 -- it was his favorite song then. At various points since, he's loved "Paper Planes," "$20" and "Bad Girls." His pick off the new one is the title track -- after about 30 seconds he said, "I want that one on my next mix CD."

this sounds very stripped down and quiet to me compared to everything she's done, but especially MAYA. i like it, even though i love those albums too.

i am not understanding any of the people saying this is small-sounding or quiet. it's cacophonous and huge, in a good way

unless you're talking about that compression thing in which case i care not

i am not understanding any of the people saying this is small-sounding or quiet. it's cacophonous and huge, in a good way

― lex pretend, Wednesday, November 6, 2013 11:14 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^^^

I'll give another listen tonight and think on it

unless you're talking about that compression thing in which case i care not

I think you DO care when there isn't any space in a beat, but also it sort of doesn't matter whether this is overcompressed or not, it's supposed to be a barrage of sound.

Her sound, or soundscape, is so distinct -- no matter which producers she's working with, she has this instantly identifiable sonic voice. A silky clatter. Even when it's stripped down, it's always bright and colorful. She could do an instrumental album and it would still sound like M.I.A.

omg @ the term "silky clatter"

brb naming a cat

this album is bangers city

damn surprised pfork aren't feelin it

I think a lot of critics penalize her over her lyrics

her lyrics have been simple and repetitive since day 1; they function for me as impressionistic padding for the beats that evoke imagery rather than specific storytelling (which make instances of specific storytelling like "Sunshowers" stand out and hit harder IMO)

Pfork had Zoladz, who loved the new Arcade Fire, review it. I think she's more into rock.

Although she liked earlier M.I.A. releases

"come walk with me" has apple sounds on it

volume up and down, photo booth

that's all i have to say

Yes that is why we love it

because i said or was implying that

instead of just noting something

what?

i miss when she didnt sound so pissed off all the time, even the beats on this are kinda distorted and brittle. its pretty fab all the same though - she sounds oddly comfortable but not complacent - like shes happy in herself but frustrated that she still isnt where she wants to be. that guardian interview made me love her more than i already do.

it's been pointed out that "Warriors" samples "A si, me a gusta me" by Chimo Bayo, which is super awesome

WHAT?!? HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THIS OMG

BLESSED ALBUM OF THE YEAR

I found out one of my coworker-friends has never really heard MIA so I am making her a mix of my 4 favorite songs from each album in sequence:

"Pull Up The People"
"Bucky Done Gun"
"10 Dollar"
"Galang"

"Bamboo Banga"
"Bird Flu"
"Boys"
"XR2"

"XXXO"
"Teqkilla"
"Born Free"
"Space"

"Come Walk With Me"
"Bad Girls"
"Y.A.L.A."
"Bring the Noize"

needs URAQT though

^^^ and "Sunshowers", "Hussel", "Lovalot" and "Matangi"

I love this album. Can I keep saying it?

YES I DO TOO

Yeah, I was (and am) a defender of Maya, but this one is the bizness.

The above mixtape has had me playing "Space" on repeat for like 3 days

I want to create a poll/list thread of the best wackiest MIA lyrics incl "I need to earn like / I'm Julianne Moore" and "Like Puzzle Bobble on PC / It's got color waves following me"

Best moment in MIA history: "What can I get for 10 dollar?"

OOOHHHHMMMMMMMM

yeah this is a good album. should probably go back and give Maya another shot but this grabs me right off the bat in a way that never did.

"Sexodus" is kinda beautiful.

i like the quietus review of this a lot particularly w/r/t authenticity/being a 2nd generation immigrant (even if it bashes assange which is just way too easy these days), but not sure about sexodus - it seems to position MIA in a very sexual way which i dont think shes really done before, i always thought she was interesting for having resisted the usual route female artists have to go down. it also sounds way too much like a weeknd song on an MIA album. i find the album brilliant, esp sonically, but also hard work to really get to grips with - its pretty slippery and seems to lack hooks to really sink your teeth into.

I tend to skip Sexadus for the reason you mention AND because it's so corny and weird (and ineffective), like that song on Kala with timbaland

its really silly (not in a fun way either, its just a groaner). not really surprised madonna passed on it.

Interesting, for I've barely heard the lyrics after a month with this thing.

i dont think the record is cluttered or anything but yeah theres something very 'busy' about it that i think means it seems quite dazzling but also means it doesnt achieve much in the way of 'clarity of purpose' or whatever (though maybe i just need to spend more time with it, i just remember every time i heard it, its been pretty overwhelming)

thx stilladvance

i'm pretty surprised i like "sexodus" myself, on paper it really shouldn't work. reprising "exodus" actually works well in terms of the album's sequencing. sort of interesting how little is actually changed, if she wanted to make some sort of point about the political vs the erotic she could have really laid it on thick, but she restrains herself from doing that - the strength of the music carries it.

don't think i'd have ever guessed the weeknd's involvement if he hadn't been credited.

the album's full of hooks imo, it's pretty messy and overwhelming but they're there. it definitely coheres in the second half - the first three proper songs are amazing but probably as difficult as the album gets, then you get two absolutely dreadful clunkers, then "exodus" as a much-needed breathing space that's still completely unexpected, then "bad girls" which really doesn't need to be on this album in any way, and THEN it kicks into gear and doesn't let up

(i don't think i'll ever stop hating on "come walk with me", it's just a wretched wretched song)

yeah when The Singles Jukebox reviewed it I gave it a middling score without quite figuring out what irritated me. Now I realize: it all comes down to the "fucks with me" part.

it has the most irritating lumbering melody

I love the "fucks with me" part!

new video for dbt.

not a huge fan of the track tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9AKH16--VE

This was one of my favourites on the album. Massive.

How is this so good

M.I.A. had a longer run of great albums than people appreciate. Everything until AIM was gold, meaning she could do no wrong for almost a decade.

COSIGN

all-time gym album, by the way. Try it! Barely lets up until "Lights".. which is a nice thing after about 45 minutes.

Matangi has aged really well

Like, I have a feeling it would be better received if she released it today.