Nothing this year will top Boom Skit/Double Bubble Trouble. Masterpiece...
Pretty much nothing this year tops anything on Matangi. Yeezus is the only thing that's on par IMO. They're pretty much sister albums. What they try to achieve is so similar. Really wish we got to hear that Kanye and M.I.A. collab.
I only use "Lights" as background music, but I do use "Know It Ain't Right". But they are certainly not the albums best songs...
You can make a case for every song on the album being the best imo. I don't think this is an album where any song is extremely weak compared to the other. It's very subjective depending on what a person likes and the style of the song as the album is constantly shifting. I can completely understand someone saying Exodus or Come Walk With Me being the best even though I'm not a fan of them. I'll stand by Lights/Know It Ain't Right being the best for me at least. My top 5 for now is Know It Ain't Right, Lights, Warriors, Matangi and Double Bubble Trouble.
Names are important to Maya Arulpragasam. She named her first two albums after her father and mother, /\/\/\Y/\ after herself, and Matangi after an emerald-green Tantric goddess as well as a riff on her birth name, Mathangi. Picking up where /\/\/\Y/\'s challenging electronics and distrust of the information age left off, M.I.A.'s fourth album is top-loaded with some of its most aggressive tracks, including the title track's global litany. She makes listeners wait for her still-formidable skills with hooks and melodies, displaying them most stunningly on "Bad Girls," a sinewy, menacing track whose origins date back to 2007 sessions with Danja. Throughout the album, Arulpragasam proves she's as adept as ever at blending different sounds and cultures into a mix that is unmistakably hers, alluding to Shampoo's bratty Brit-pop single "Trouble" at one moment and proclaiming herself the female Slick Rick at another. Indeed, the songs inspired by rap and R&B are among the highlights, such as her karmic questioning of Drake's ubiquitous motto on "Y.A.L.A." or the sultry, surprisingly straightforward ballad "Know It Ain't Right." "Exodus," a collaboration with the Weeknd, finds a mostly successful middle ground between her outbursts and his chilly R&B dirges. Other standouts include the fizzy, hypnotic "Lights" and "Boom Skit," which harks back to Arular's brazen exuberance.
^ I was thinking the EXACT same thing. It doesn't sound bad at all. Maybe the 3 stars is a placeholder. The user reviews is at 3 also, but no user actually reviewed it :S
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Where's the Rolling Stone review? Can't find it on their site...
Hmm actually I can't find it either. I just remember someone posting the score in the thread. Maybe it was false :S
Let me read this review
