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Kala | 
| Artist: Mia
Label: Xl
Category: Music
List Price: £10.99
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 628
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 634904028121
EAN: 0634904028121
ASIN: B000T7QX78
Release Date: August 20, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Bamboo Banga | | • | Bird Flu | | • | Boyz | | • | Jimmy | | • | Hussel - MIA & Afrikan Boy | | • | Mango Pickle Down River - MIA & Wilcannia Mob | | • | 20 Dollar | | • | World Town | | • | Turn | | • | XR2 | | • | Paper Planes | | • | Come Around - MIA & Timbaland |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
The desire to seek culture and tradition from outside one's own backyard to influence your art and music is nothing new--from The Beatles through Marc Bolan, Paul Simon and up to Damon Albarn with his Mali Music, evidence is rife even in the mainstream. The only problem for M.I.A (aka London born Maya Arulpragasam) is that her backyard was flung far and wide in the first instance, growing up as she did in the UK, India and Sri Lanka--which may go some way to explaining the bewildering, fragrant, intoxicating mesh of sounds, rhythms and head-on sonic clashes that surge willfully throughout her second album, Kala--the result of her own personal voyage of artistic discovery. She's absorbed, in addition to her own eclectic electro beginnings, aboriginal hip-hop, Jamaican dancehall, Liberian and Trinidadian influences, also finding the time to work with Timbaland (not nearly, incidentally, the highlight of the record). On "Mango Pickle Down River" she sounds like Missy Elliot shuffling in a didgeridoo with a rapping children's choir she picked up somewhere en route, while the fittingly titled "World Town" is grime arriving on an asteroid during a tribal ceremony with sound effects ranging from a cocked gun to apparent digitized bagpipes. Considering how out-of-this-world-original M.I.A's Mercury-nominated debut Arular was it is a rare delight that she's progressed with such resolute surefootedness, losing none of her intrigue. You've got a lot of miles to cover to catch her up, let's put it that way. --James Berry
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 A HIT October 29, 2008
PROVIDING THIS GETS THE AIRPLAY THEN THIS SHOULD BE A HUGE HIT, IM STILL WAITING FOR MY VINYL I ORDERED, BY DOWNLOAD I HEARD PAPER PLANES AND LIKED IT THE OTHER SONGS ARE OF THE SAME QUALITY, I CAN SEE ALL THE 13 YEAR OLD GIRLS SINGING ALONG TO THIS, AND I WAS BOPING TO IT TOO.
JUST BROUGHT THIS October 23, 2008
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
I JUST BROUGHT THIS HEARD SHE WAS GOOD, ONLY REALLY HEARD BRITISH ASIAN RAP BY FUNDAMENTAL AND SKINNYMAN.
BUT ILL GIVE THIS A LISTEN I SHELLED OUT FOR THE EXPANDED VERSION WILL POST A REVIEW WHEN I GET IT IF IT IS GOOD ILL GIVE A NICE REVIEW
Crazy Lady!!!!! August 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wow................this is one of my favourite albums of all time. I first heard "Jimmy" on the radio and that was the first time i heard the work of M.I.A., me being me i bought the album and im so glad i did. Every song has it's own edge but all are great in their own way. I bought her first album not long after buying "KALA" and it also is great. Can't wait for her next one!!!
 Am I Living On A Different Planet? April 4, 2008
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
I love all kinds of music, from the mainstream to the obscure, from rock thru funk to country. But honestly - this album is pure unadulerated rubbish from start to finish. It's a collection of the same old tuneless synthesized hip-hop bleeps and farts replete with cliched chip on shoulder lyrics and carefully packaged aggression. And of course, what pile of melody deficient crap would be complete without a drop in visit from - you guessed it - Timbaland.
Get over it guys and gals - we know you're cool. You don't need to tell us anymore. We know that you're cooler than any of us will ever be, in fact the rest of us should just all kill ourselves now we're so unworthy to be living on the same planet as you. On behalf of the rest of us, may I sincerely apologize for being born. Happy now?
Quality out weighs the rough edges January 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
MIA in the past has been fairly hyped up in some qurters, but at last she is starting to live up to it. This album is what I hoped her first record would be like but wasn't. Arular seemed to be throwing together 'influences' simply for the sake of it, but Kala's musical journey around the continents is far more interestring and productive. This album is original, catchy and daring enough to be worth attention.
It has to be said that there is the odd track that makes me sympathise with even the most negative reviewers, consistency of output is not MIA's strength, (why did the album have to open with road runner?) but I wouldn't want this to put anyone off.
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