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December 18th, 2007
All’s well that ends well: it’s the maxim that, you can’t help but feel, best sums up
M.I.A.’s whirlwind 2007. Back in 2006 the future was looking decidedly bleak for the follow-up to the London firebrand’s acclaimed debut
Arular when a failed US Visa application scuppered a planned Timbaland collaboration which would have seen the Virginia mogul produce the record.
Actually, it turned out to be something of a blessing in disguise,
M.I.A. opting instead to hotfoot it round the globe with underground DJ Switch, recording in India, Australia, Liberia, Trinidad, Japan and Jamaica in search of a wider-reaching sound.