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Sep 14, 2016So, bottom line, you’ve got a few pieces of trash, a couple of sketches whose mileage varies on how well you dig their hooks, and plenty of fantastic stuff that ranks with M.I.A.’s best work, and M.I.A.’s best work is fascinating and damned fun.
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Sep 9, 2016AIM may not be the Next Great M.I.A. album, but it delivers a solid collection of distinctive, crowd-friendly bangers that sound like no one else.
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Sep 12, 2016It’s always best to take what M.I.A. says with a pinch of salt bigger than the NHS would recommend but if AIM really is her last album, it feels like a fitting parting shot.
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Q MagazineSep 2, 2016Wildly collaborative, pan-globalistically luvvy-duvvy and heaps of fun, it just about hangs together as her best outing since 2007's Kala. [Oct 2016, p.102]
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Sep 13, 2016It's not her best album, as there are clearly concessions on display but it doesn't let her anthology down and she is now free of her label.
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Sep 12, 2016If this it to be M.I.A.’s final release, it’s a fittingly confrontational, vibrant and invigorating piece of work.
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Oct 10, 2016If this is her last record then she hasn’t gone out on her finest note, but that’s certainly not to undermine the album. Maya Arulpragasam’s body of work remains an important reminder of the exciting prospects of cultural exchange and the immigrant experience. Taken in that light, AIM is a fitting addition to her oeuvre.
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Sep 13, 2016Even if AIM is more scattered than her finest work, at its best it plays like a scrapbook that pieces together over a decade's worth of sounds and issues.
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Sep 9, 2016For all its merits AIM is a muddled record, and her divisiveness is sometimes counterproductive.
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Sep 8, 2016A world-weary yet ultimately optimistic statement about the power people may not even know they possess.
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Sep 8, 2016A.I.M. may not be concise, but it's focused and purposeful, a loose collection characterized by sticky-hot swagger, political awareness and, most importantly, urgency.
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Sep 12, 2016Traditionally, M.I.A. peaks when she melts her musical influences, but on AIM, there’s this lingering feeling that too many of the songs were left half-baked. As such, the album feels less like a farewell and more like a preview for her next reinvention, a midday snack before the full-course government takedown.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 137 out of 167
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Mixed: 16 out of 167
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Negative: 14 out of 167
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