The name of M.I.A.’s new album is a tad confusing—/\/\/\Y/\—but it’s really just a fancy way of saying Maya. The Londoner-by-way-of-Sri Lanka is back with her third album and plenty more of her unique blend of hip-hop, dancehall, world music and clever rhymes set to catchy beats. "I wanted to make something more personal, and more organic, and real, and that connected to my life,” M.I.A. said recently of her time recording the album, after just giving birth.

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