M.I.A. seems to have been ready to drop her fourth album, Matangi for ages. However, it looks like it will be released on November 3.
There’s been various rumours about her and the record company not seeing eye to eye on the release. Whatever the reasons, the bits of music that have filtered through are great. This is the latest track to do the rounds, which sanples both Carly Simon’s ‘Why’ and blur’s ‘Tender.’
I’ve posted this before, the single from earlier this year ‘Bring The Noize.’ At the time I wrote: ‘It’s incendiary, and rather like sticking your fingers in a plug. I was half asleep when I pressed play, it’s better than a shot of double espresso to the brain…’