You've never heard anything like M.I.A. -- the sound of jump-rope rhymes in a war zone. She blew out of the London electro underground last year with her indie debut single, "Galang." M.I.A. chants the hook "London calling/Speak the slang now" while she ...more
musicOMH.com
Things have moved on since the Mercury Prize winnerMs Dynamitetook the black urban queen trinkets some years ago, seemingly promising everything but delivering nothing since. Enter into the ring MIA, aka Mathangi 'Maya' Arulpragasam, a Sri Lankan ...more
The A.V. Club
For those who use music as a compass through different countries and contexts, M.I.A. is a magnetic master-stroke: Born in Sri Lanka and raised in multi-culti London, she makes the kind of rootless music that sounds grown from everywhere and nowhere at ...more
Virgin.net
It's hard to know where to stand with an artist like M.I.A. On the one hand, she's the ultimate, mockable Nathan Barley fantasy - a mildly subversive riot grrl ("Like PLO we don't surrender", she sings on Sunshowers) who chucks together a zeitgeisty ...more
CDreviews
Maya means illusion in Sanskrit. Its a name that evokes levels of complexity, shifting imagery, and layer upon layer of infinite depth. And if Arular is any indication, Maya Arulpragasam, aka M.I.A, lives up to her name beautifully. There are ...more
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