Maya (Deluxe Version) CD

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Song Listing

Disc 1

Song Title

1. Message, The ~ M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam)

2. Steppin' Up ~ M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam)

3. XXXO ~ M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam)

4. Teqkilla ~ M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam)

5. Lovalot ~ M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam)

6. Story To Be Told ~ M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam)

7. It Takes a Muscle ~ M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam)

8. It Iz What It Iz ~ M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam)

9. Born Free ~ M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam)

10. Meds and Feds ~ M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam)

11. Tell Me Why ~ M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam)

12. Space ~ M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam)

13. Internet Connection ~ M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam)

14. Illygirl - (live, featuring Blaqstarr) ~ M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam)

15. Believer ~ M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam)

16. Caps Lock ~ M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam)

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	Recording information: Red Bull Studios, Los Angeles, CA.
	Photographers: Jaime Martinez; Ravi Thiagaraja; Maya Arulpragasam.
	Almost three years after her second album, which featured the Top Five U.S. hit "Paper Planes," M.I.A. returns with MAYA, a set released on her N.E.E.T. label through XL and Astralwerks. The two songs issued as teasers -- the harsh and repetitious "Born Free," accompanied by an attention-grabbing video, and the slinking, surprisingly poppy "XXXO" -- merely indicated the wide scope of the album, which features input from Diplo, Blaqstarr, Switch, and Rusko.
Producer: Rusko; Diplo; Blaqstarr; Sleigh Bells; Switch
Engineer: Eric Stenman
Musical Guests
	Blaqstarr

Entertainment Reviews

M.I.A. - Maya - CD Review

By: Jordan Richardson Blogcritics.org Reviews

Published on: 8/15/2010 2:26 PM

"I don't wanna talk about money, cuz I got it," spits M.I.A. on "Born Free," an anarchic and insistent cut from her new album. Maya is the British performer's third studio record. It's a powerful statement of intent, a blistering symphony of brutal noise and sudden beauty that runs through Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam's last few years of activism, motherhood and existence....read the full review

Compilation Appearances

	Bangin Beats: Then & Now 3
	Total
	MDNA (Deluxe Edit Edition)
	MDNA
	MDNA (Deluxe Explicit Version)

Associated Artists and Works

	Diplo
	Mia

Technical Info

	Release Date : 07/13/2010
	Original Release Date : 2010
	Catalog ID : BOO14362
	Label : Interscope (USA)
	Number of Discs : 1
	Studio/Live : Studio
	Mono/Stereo : Stereo
	SPAR Code : n/a
	UPC : 00602527399874

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone (p.100)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "M.I.A. packs every track with left-field surprises: the ghostly Suicide organ on 'Born Free,' the gospel chant of 'Tell Me Why,' the Bowie-style robot sheen of 'Space.'"

Spin - "[T]he sneakily titled 'Lovealot' is perhaps the riskiest gambit yet from the 32-year-old artist....[M.I.A.] has always been mercurial, volatile, elusive....

Mojo (Publisher)
(p.52)
- Ranked #35 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2010" -- "[I]t's a provocative, confused and contradictory splurge....Wonderful."

Paste (magazine)
- "At its core, MAYA boasts a handful of great -- and truly subversive -- ideas....Like the rebels she so often lionizes, Arulpragasam is conducting hit-and-run warfare on modern pop..."

Clash (magazine)
- "With schizophrenic aplomb M.I.A. has unleashed her most adventurous and uncompromising album so far."

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