Pitchfork trashes new M.I.A. album, cops break up release party @ PS1 +++ here are those Creators Project pics

July 12, 2010

photos by Benjamin Lozovsky

“This M.I.A. album is unforgivable. Y’all put her on the cover of your magazines before actually hearing this thing, right?” – Chris Weingarten

“every1 who came 2nite to PS1 TO REP the LP Release party THANK YOU! I LOVE YOU! !!!!!! i dint get to say it coz the cop turn my sound off!..” – _M_I_A_

M.I.A. @ The Creators Project in June
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“The record is a shambling mess, devoid of the bangers that characterized Arular and Kala, two of the stronger pop albums of the past decade. It aims to capture a technological and cultural zeitgeist in its over-stimulated, digitally degraded sound, but the songs are too flimsy to carry her bold conceit. Without compelling tunes, the obnoxious public antics, dubious political messages, and thin voice that had grated on her naysayers have become impossible for even dedicated fans to ignore. It’s as if everything that was great about M.I.A. has been stripped from this music, leaving behind only the most alienating aspects of her art and public persona.” [Pitchfork (Matthew Perpetua) gave / / / Y / a 4.4]

M.I.A.‘s new album is streaming on MySpace.

M.I.A.‘s next NYC show is on Governors Island.

M.I.A.’s last NYC show was at PS1 last night, Sunday, July 11th, sort of. As previously mentioned, she was only scheduled to play a very short set, and as you can see by her tweet above, that set was cut even shorter (by actors pretending to be cops. just kidding! well, you never know).

M.I.A.’s last show that was longer than 5 minutes was her semi-surprise appearance at the June 26th Creators Project event. A full set of pictures from that show (pot leaf glasses and all), below…

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