Celebrate the Kala - “Boyz” Video
In celebration of the new M.I.A. album, Kala, I’ve provided below the video to her first single, “Boyz”, and a MP3 from the album, “Bird Flu”.
- Links of Interest:
- M.I.A. Myspace
- Buy Kala (Amazon) (iTunes)
- Download “Bird Flu”
In “Bird Flu”, you may say that this is a good example of her political side, expressing the terror and fear that’s built up by diseases originating from overseas. But again, she’s able to take afunny, quarky sound and turn it in to a fun loving danceable beat. Oh, and I also need to make sure that I’m not just crediting M.I.A. for her mastery, her sidekick (no, not that sidekick) Switch is also behind many of the songs on Kala. Only two songs were produced by Diplo, one by Timbaland and two by Blaqstarr.
“Boyz” is clearly a track that shows to the world that M.I.A. is a girl who can have fun and doesn’t always have to talk about serious political issues in her music. Her music in general is fun and energetic but sometimes she can’t get away from her passionate genes carried over from her father.
Josh Ritter - “The Historical Conquest of Josh Ritter”
- MP3 “To the Dogs or Who Ever”
- Myspace
- Official website (Stream full album)
- Purchase Album
- Boston Show - 10/4 and 10/5 at Somerville Theatre (view all tour dates)
Links of Interest:
In the upcoming release by Josh Ritter (out tomorrow, 8/20), “The Historical Conquest of Josh Ritter” (kind of a bold title if you ask me), Josh announces that the “record is an effort to capture moments when they were at their most passionate”. He explains how all the songs have this rawness to them because they were captured on the fly. Instead of tooling around for hours on a song, they would be hanging out and all of a sudden an idea popped in to their heads and recorded it. And didn’t change it.
Why did Josh decide to go this route? Was it because his last record lacked the passion and rawness that he feels this record captures? I would saw yes to the rawness but no to the passion. On his last album, “The Animal Years”, Josh was focused on a political message and wanted to make sure that each song delivered the message he was looking for (like every good politician should do before opening their mouth). But the songs were very clean and straightforward. The one downfall with Josh is that he’s not the most prolific guitar player. He’s know Nick Drake. Then again, who is.
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