AIM

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AlbumSep 09 / 201612 songs, 39m 55s
UK Hip Hop Political Hip Hop Electropop
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The border-crossing pop visionary returns with her most positive and self-assured album yet. Like her past triumphs, *AIM* is both thoughtful and provocative. Between the bhangra and boom-bap is the lived-in confidence of an artist who no longer has to shout to be heard, evidenced on the Delhi dancehall of “Visa” and the album-closing “Survivor,” her most unabashedly pretty song yet.

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5.9 / 10

M.I.A. returns with a politically charged but confusing album that lacks bite and bounce, presenting only glimmers of what once was.

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M.I.A.’s albums have always served as her political soapboxes. Her latest—and purportedly last—AIM, is no different. M.I.A. has also been vocal about being a refugee for some three decades, as a persecuted Tamil from Sri Lanka living in the United Kingdom—a status that is particularly topical on AIM.

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M.I.A fifth album may well be her last, but 'AIM' is a witty parting shot for this unique artist

The rapper’s fifth – and possibly final – album doesn’t always cohere but is recognisably pop

5.5 / 10

M.I.A. used to sound busy because she was brimming with ideas, but here she’s busy trying to find an idea to cling to.

Our take on the fifth album from the global pop diva.

If this is her last album, ‘A.I.M.’ is a strange, slightly inconclusive goodbye wave from M.I.A.

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On AIM, which was rumored to be her final album at the time of its release, she sounds revitalized.

7 / 10

For a moment there, critics might have had you convinced that M.I.A. lost the plot. Pop music doesn't leave much room for nuance, so while M...

6.0 / 10

M.I.A.'s fifth, and perhaps last studio album is yet another titled after a name, flipped this time into an anagram with implication.

6 / 10

Fearless, provocative, uber-cool: Mathangi Arulpragasam - more commonly known as M.I.A. - is many things. In a career spanning more than a decade, her

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5 / 10

AIM is less emphatic and coherent than many of M.I.A.’s previous musical provocations.

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'AIM' by M.I.A. album review by Daniel Geddes. The full-length is now out via Interscope records. The lead-track "Go Off" is now streaming.

The renegade rapper takes aim at haters and the refugee crisis on an admirable but scattershot fifth – and supposedly final – album

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