-- M.I.A, "Matangi" (Interscope) Named after a ghetto Hindu goddess, M.I.A.'s fourth proper album pops with a relentless pounce and is filled with all the paradoxical imagery that the intro's title "Karmageddon" conjures. On the call-to-arms title track she breaks it down as a tsunami of percussion mounts: "It's so simple/Get to the floor." Then sets it off simply by rhyming different places -- "Gambia/Namibia/Bali/Mali/Chile/Malawi" -- in her inimitable cadence. But it's never simple with M.I.A...
-- M.I.A, "Matangi" (Interscope) Named after a ghetto Hindu goddess, M.I.A.'s fourth proper album pops with a relentless pounce and is filled with all the paradoxical imagery that the intro's title "Karmageddon" conjures. On the call-to-arms title track she breaks it down as a tsunami of percussion mounts: "It's so simple/Get to the floor." Then sets it off simply by rhyming different places -- "Gambia/Namibia/Bali/Mali/Chile/Malawi" -- in her inimitable cadence. But it's never simple with M.I.A...
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