code meets music

Play.com have let me down. I pre-ordered the wonderful PJ Harvey’s new (probably wonderful) new album from them, and despite them having apparently dispatched it last saturday, it still hasn’t arrived. I don’t think I’ve been looking forward to an album this much since, well, forever really.

Anyway, after being much impressed by MIA’s first album ‘Arular’ (I even went so far call my computer ‘arular’), buying the 2nd album a couple of months ago wasn’t a difficult decision.

It’s not quite as exciting as when I first heard Bucky Done Gun off the first album- the songs this time seem to have been written slightly more with an audience in mind. That’s not to say she has toned down, but the songs are less political and more personal. It doesn’t take a psychologist to read something into the fact that Arular is the name of MIA’s “Tamil activist-turned militant” father (Wikipedia’s choice of description…) while Kala is named after her mother.

Hopefully White Chalk will arrive soon.