M.I.A
Kala
Interscope
#9. Kala
by MIA
It turns out that
Maya "MIA" Arulpragasam is a pretty serious person, so the planned Three
Six Mafia track and a few Timbaland collaborations that might have taken
this daughter of a Sri Lankan rebel leader's second album pop just
didn't make the cut. Instead there are sweltering melodies forged from
disco, reggae, rap and Bollywood as well as animal sounds, kiddie
choruses, didgeridoos, bells, whistles, zooming cars and what sounds
like Silly Putty bouncing around in a rubber room. It's easy to get lost
in all the chaos, and that's kind of the point. Kala is a tour of a
stateless, chaotic world led by MIAs pop gun vocals. It's not exactly
fun, but hard truths rarely are.