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MIA talks new LP

By | Published on Wednesday 8 August 2012

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So, MIA has been saying various things – most nonsense, others less so – about her forthcoming fourth LP ‘Matangi’, which is set for release by the end of the year. Having just shared this cryptic twitpic of a tracklisting, part obscured by green neon script, the Interscope-signed MC invited her Twitter following to ask questions about the tbc long player.

Basically, from MIA’s insights, we now know (well, we’re pretty sure) that it’ll feature between five and fifteen tracks, one of which will be her past single ‘Bad Girls’, and that it will be free of any collaborations with other artists.

MIA also defined its genre as “Paul Simon on acid”, said that it may feature a cameo by an extortive parrot, and assured fans that its production staff were all “ones that don’t act like fame whore colonisers”. So no sign of Diplo, then.

And finally, the LP’s release will apparently be preceded by the rapper’s self-titled book – an “autobiographical monograph in collages” set for publication in October – and will itself precede a documentary and December art exhibition. In that order.



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