M.I.A. has announced a new album that will be out next Friday. The singer’s first album since 2022’s MATA is set for release via her own independent label OHMNIMUSIC. M.I.7 is billed as her “gospel album, not in genre, but in spirit,” and you can hear a glimpse of that on today’s lead single ‘EVERYTHING’ below.
Featuring the American gospel group Sunday Service, the new album was recorded in Ethiopia, Egypt, India, London, Australia, and Los Angeles. “Performed as if it were her last, M.I.7 arrives as a revelation in her personal timeline, completed in the chaos of the current moment,” a press release states. “Biblical in its references and prophetic in its delivery, the album channels the singular production and vocal prowess she has been lauded for over the past 20 years. But this time she leaves politics at the door, and enters with something more intimate, more ancestral, more existential, more transcendent, and more essential than anything she has made before.”
