Arular
- M.I.A.
- Band Name: M.I.A.
- Record Label: Beggars Banquet / XL
- Release Date: Mar 22, 2005
- Summary: This short but wildly eclectic debut album from Maya Arulpragasam, a Sri Lankan-born, London-based artist and daughter of a Tamil Tiger revolutionary, is preceded by enormous buzz in both the U.K. and the U.S.
- Record Label: Beggars Banquet / XL
- Genre(s): Electronic, Rap, Dancehall
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 32 out of 33
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Mixed: 1 out of 33
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Negative: 0 out of 33
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100It’s a swaggering, spitting, utterly contemporary album of politically dissident, sexually forthright Anglo-Sri Lankan dubstep bhangra hip-pop IDM in which M.I.A. stars as protagonist, antagonist, chanteuse, MC, exotic schoolgirl tease, graphic artist, chastiser of the immoral, and fun-loving London-living party girl. And all in under 40 minutes, too. It’s special. We’ve not heard it’s like before.
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80When 'Arular' works - a good three-quarters of the time - it's unmissable.
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80What makes M.I.A. so good is her simplicity. Not quite electro-clash, not quite hip-hop, not quite grime, she's a world onto herself with little more than a groovebox and her voice to sustain her.
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60M.I.A.'s style mag-cool pop-rap doesn't have the substance to carry the dark subtext of the title. [May 2005, p.107]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 110 out of 139
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Mixed: 5 out of 139
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Negative: 24 out of 139
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JM10One of the essential albums of the year...
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One look at the cover and you know that this album isnâ
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RayKay4this CD is horribly overrated. don't waste your time
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