Echo & Ass & Titties present – M.I.A.
MON JUL 30, 2007 8:00P & TUE JUL 31, 2007 8:00P

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“I have the most interesting record,” rapper-producer Maya “M.I.A” Arulpragasam told us recently. Now that Rock Daily had a chance to check out Kala (due August 12), we totally agree. For starters, the one Timbaland-produced cut (”Come Around”) is the most conventional track on the album. There are also bird calls, Indian drummers, rapping Aboriginal children and eerie glitch-and-grind beats that’d make Thom Yorke puke with envy. With M.I.A. spitting catchy rhymes and id-channeling reveries, the overall sound is something like a inimitable female MC collaborating with robots and ghosts in a jungle — thickly detailed electro-rap both primal and futuristic. – Rolling Stone