First nervtötend & radically and with surprising pop hits and ballads

The debut Arular was named after her father, the second album Kala bore the name of her mother, the third album Maya carries MIA`s own name. It's quite possible that the next album will be titled after her son Ikhyd by her husband Ben and the album it.
The first two albums of Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragsam contained very getting used to, idiosyncratic music. Maya is still bulky, unfortunately weaker. Barely playful world music, for the more policy and electronics.
For Christina Aguilera's album Bionic Bionic has the catchy pop song co-written Elastic Love - it's worth listening to him!
In Paper Planes video Maya was wearing a Metallica shirt. Obviously she flirts with not only heavy metal, but like this music. Born free anyway sounds so crass and brutal looks like the video, Slayer would make dance music, it would sound like this. The daughter of a Tamil freedom fighter the video Born Free, in which US troops is interning redhead and execute, at least for me, no glorification of violence but a statement against violence. Metallica's video for One was certainly less ambiguous: "Here comes the armless, legless wonder of the 20th century!".
XXX0 is a kitsch-free, very catchy love song. Space is relaxed and beautiful, sometimes not distorted voice, but simply beautiful singing. These three songs have become the stuff hits so far this album has more potential chart success as Kala. But then there are songs like the guitar attack Feds and Meds and very atrocious. Steppin up drilling in a rock song? If yes can work stand at the Chemical Brothers in 1997 even integrate a circular saw in a really great, meditative song (The private psychedelic reel from the album Dig Your Own Hole) Dig Your Own Hole. Maya artisan song calls me the Tocotronic prompt to mind: Do not do it yourself! ;-)

The booklet looks as usual at MIA: brightly colored collages including Lyrics. The four bonus songs and the hologram cover the Limited Edition are nice additions, but dispensable.

Marbled, extremely stressful first album that takes several passes. MIA is back with drills and power with their very first soulful ballad (Space).

Playing tips: XXX0, Born Free, Space