http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/9/8/22472/69041 What we have here is quite possibly the most over-hyped and over-rated album of 2007. The <a href="http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/mia/kala">critics</a> are falling all over themselves to heap praise upon the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kala-M-I/dp/B000TJ6CM2/">newest joint</a> from <a href="http://www.miauk.com/">M.I.A.</a>, but how good is it, really? en-us Sun, 9 Sep 2007 13:51:02 EST Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:39:28 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/9/8/22472/69041#4 That should be Bucky Done Gun... not Gone... well whatever... <p> HOW MANY BOYZ ARE ROWDEY?<br> HOW MANY START A WAR? Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:39:28 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/9/8/22472/69041#3 I've been listening to this album non-stop since last week... I'm actually listening to $20 as I write this. I'd be happy if all music sounded like this.<p> I've got to say that I don't like The Turn much (although it's growing on me), but all the other on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:37:12 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/9/8/22472/69041#2 It's too bad she didn't just put this album's best songs on an ep and leave it at that. But ep's aren't generally big sellers, and besides she's got enough critical acclaim (and blogger acclaim) behind this album to make it a pretty successful venture.<br> Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:36:59 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/9/8/22472/69041#1 Bearing in mind that Kala's <i>ouevre</i> is sooo not my thing, I have to agree with your appraisal of Paper Planes as being quite good.  I'm not sure whether the dissonance I kept hearing on some of the tracks were some sort of Sri Lankan native inst Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:17:00 EST string http://www.treesandthings.com/search/