M.I.A. is hailed as one of the most freshly creative artists to hit the scene, paving the way for fierce and adventurous females to break the mold. With Kala, she pulls even more globe-trekking, and genre bending into her musical mix. Recorded in India, Trinidad, Australia, London, New York and Baltimore, M.I.A. has crafted an international sound that is as excitingly undefineable as it is infectious.

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Already adopted as the next darling of the press, this album is assured a large territory in the musical landscape of 2005. It started with the cover of the Fader this past fall, a review of a UK single in the New York Times, and more recently a two page New Yorker feature. Through an amazingly organic word of mouth about her debut single Galang, M.I.A. has already become a household name to the hip glitterati of the world. "This Sri Lankan-born beauty lays knotted crime tales over grimy, glitchy dan   [ read more ]

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M.I.A. was one of the 50 best So-Cal punk bands of the great early-'80s second wave explosion, but for some reason never received much lasting acclaim -- while seemingly all their brethren were acknowledged then and since. Sadly, their two best records, Notes From the Underground and After the Fact, are the period directly after this 37-song compendium. But Lost Boys, which captures their faster, harder beginnings, is still worth pursuing. This should have been chronological, as M.I.A.'s f   [ read more ]

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