AIM

Pitchfork 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.

A.V. Club F 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.

NME 4/5 M.I.A fifth album may well be her last, but 'AIM' is a witty parting shot for this unique artist

Evening Standard 3/5 The rapper’s fifth – and possibly final – album doesn’t always cohere but is recognisably pop

Rolling Stone 3/5 Our take on the fifth album from the global pop diva.

DIY 3/5 If this is her last album, ‘A.I.M.’ is a strange, slightly inconclusive goodbye wave from M.I.A.

The Independent 3/5 Also Meat Loaf, Teenage Fanclub and Maxi Jazz

Under The Radar 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.

Clash 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

The Observer 3/5 (Interscope)

Slant 3/5 AIM is less emphatic and coherent than many of M.I.A.’s previous musical provocations.

The Guardian 3/5 The renegade rapper takes aim at haters and the refugee crisis on an admirable but scattershot fifth – and supposedly final – album