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Arular [Explicit Lyrics]

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  • Audio CD (22 Feb 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Explicit Lyrics
  • Label: Xl
  • ASIN: B0007KIFLO
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 216,413 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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2. Pull Up the People
3. Bucky Done Gun
4. Fire Fire
5. Freedom Skit
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7. Bingo
8. Hombre
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Amazon.co.uk Review

Arular is the sort of record that gets people talking. The debut full-length by Maya Arulpragasam, a refugee of Sri Lankan heritage who settled in London, attended Saint Martin's art school, and designed sleeves for Elastica, it's already set a few dancefloors on fire and stirred up no small amount of controversy in the process. In brief summary: its name is a reference to her father, an active member of the Sri Lankan guerrilla movement Tamil Tigers, a militancy which extends to the album within: "I got the bombs to make you blow", she sings on "Pull Out The People". Still, whatever you make of the ideology, there's no doubting the excellent tunes: self-penned on a basic groovebox and fleshed out with help from producers like Pulp's Steve Mackay and Richard X, the likes of "Bucky Done Gun" and "Galang" dice together all manner of global styles – hip-hop, Bhangra, Jamaican dancehall – and top it off with unmistakable, multi-cultural London sass. Best of all is "Hombre", a come-hither number that should get the boys trembling at the knees: "Excuse me little hombre/ Take my number, call me/ I can get squeaky so/ You can come and oil me" --Louis Pattison

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars oh. my. god., 18 April 2005
This review is from: Arular (Audio CD)
maybe globalisation isn't so bad after all. here we have a sri-lankan born refugee living in britain, playing cut & paste with modern society, picking and choosing genres and countries of music and toying with the very essence of their sounds. it's plastic, colourful and beautiful in an indescribable way, when i heard that m.i.a. had been a visual artist before pursuing a career in music i wasn't in the least bit surprised; arular is an aural sketchbook, a rich, worldly melting-pot of modern music drawing from dancehall, hip-hop, bhangra and electro. being the postmodern fusion that it is, arular is full of contradictions, east meets west, a party record with a socio-political conscience, and strangest of all, this record is completely out of touch with what's happening in music today, yet at the same time this record is so undeniably 21st century. wether this is the future of music or merely an underground oddity i do not know, but i am certain that it will make your ears happy.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars freshest record of 2005, 24 Sep 2006
By pj manchester (Krakow, Poland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Arular (Audio CD)
OK, so taste is taste, but i'm amazed at all the negative reviews for one of the freshest, most original, and goddammit brilliant records of recent years. If you like the sound of a Missy Elliot without the #@!&$ ballads and a London emigre slant then this is for you. Arular is, quite frankly, the Nuts!
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22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Future Ish, 22 Feb 2006
This review is from: Arular (Audio CD)
I Can't Believe the review below me, surely the vocals are absolutely and totally catchy and fresh and only add to the eclectic soundscapes diplo puts up.

I thought this was amazing and totally original.

Its up to you to make your own opinion though

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4.0 out of 5 stars Very very good!
This is the sound of the 21st century. This is the sound of globalisation (and proof that that needn't necessarily be a dirty word! Read more
Published on 15 Oct 2007 by AD

5.0 out of 5 stars v cool album
Listen, why bother criticising an artist like that? One person says the 'good but beats are wrong', then one says 'good but the vocals are wrong'. Read more
Published on 1 Oct 2007 by Minty_peas

3.0 out of 5 stars Keep the vocals, put some attitude in the beats
Some seem to like the beats on this album but not the vocals, I am the opposite. While I really like her delivery, the beats seem really wet to me. Read more
Published on 6 Feb 2007 by Captain H

3.0 out of 5 stars Innovative and Interesting
[...]--there's really no reason to attack the woman's accent because you find it too "upper middle class," for example. Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2007 by anju

1.0 out of 5 stars Hard to warm to
I wanted to like this album but it is so difficult. I actually gave the CD to my sister & she is pretty open-minded when it comes to music. Read more
Published on 13 Feb 2006

3.0 out of 5 stars Great beats, shame about the vocals
After hearing so much about this artist in magazines, I went ahead and got the album to see what all the fuss was about. Read more
Published on 7 Jan 2006 by Immaculata Essien

1.0 out of 5 stars bloody awful
sounds like a third world elementary school class on a field trip to a crack factory. if this music is so revolutionary and worldly.
Published on 4 Jan 2006

2.0 out of 5 stars Not much cop really.
I bought this a good while back, listened to it a bit, and then wondered whether it would grow on me. Read more
Published on 31 Dec 2005 by T. J. Stickland

1.0 out of 5 stars unlistenable
I read somewhere that she was upset that she missed out on the mercury prize and she felt kind of cheated because her music was the only 'original' thing in the... Read more
Published on 22 Nov 2005 by M. Robbins

5.0 out of 5 stars Fresh and original
I'm really not into this sort of music usually but after hearing 'Sunshowers' once randomly on a music channel I was very intrigued. Read more
Published on 31 Aug 2005 by Alexander

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