{"id":62676,"date":"2026-04-17T08:26:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/m-i-a-drops-seventh-studio-album-m-i-7\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:26:28","slug":"m-i-a-drops-seventh-studio-album-m-i-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/m-i-a-drops-seventh-studio-album-m-i-7\/","title":{"rendered":"M.I.A. Drops Seventh Studio Album &#8216;M.I.7&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The new LP features seven songs written in seven countries, including Ethiopia, Egypt, and India<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/m-i-a\/\" id=\"auto-tag_m-i-a\" data-tag=\"m-i-a\">M.I.A.<\/a> has released her seventh studio LP, <em>M.I.7<\/em>, via her own label OHMNIMUSIC. The album features seven songs written in seven places over seven days in each location, and feature American gospel group<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Sunday Service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<em>M.I.7<\/em> was written and recorded across Ethiopia, Egypt, India, United Kingdom, Greece, and Australia, as well as in the U.S. at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rick-rubin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rick-rubin\" data-tag=\"rick-rubin\">Rick Rubin<\/a>\u2019s Shangri La Studio. It is structured around the seven trumpets of in the <em>Book of Revelation<\/em>, with each one narrating a biblical judgment before giving way to the next song. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"M.I.A. - JESUS (FEAT. SUNDAY SERVICE CHOIR) (OFFICIAL VISUALIZER)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3m-h5Be1wAk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAccording to a press release, the album concept \u201cemerged as a vision that revealed itself before the recording process began, which demanded to be followed.\u201d It includes the previously-released single, \u201cEverything.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tM.I.A.\u2019s last album, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/m-i-a-mata-1234608273\/\">MATA<\/a><\/em>, arrived in 2022. In a review, <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> wrote, \u201cHer sixth studio album grasps for the past and, in other ways, wiggles right back into the zeitgeist. \u2026 Yes, M.I.A. is still here, but it\u2019s unclear whether she has anything new to say.\u201d <\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"M.I.A - EVERYTHING (OFFICIAL AUDIO)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E5hWDNAGzls?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tM.I.A. will join Kid Cudi on his\u00a0<em>The Rebel Ragers<\/em> tour in North America from April 28 through June 27. The tour kicks off in Phoenix at Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre and wraps in Chula Vista, California, at North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLast weekend, M.I.A. <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DXDhxpbgPbb\/\" target=\"_blank\">joined Diplo<\/a> on stage at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/coachella\/\" id=\"auto-tag_coachella\" data-tag=\"coachella\">Coachella<\/a> to revisit her single \u201cPaper Planes,\u201d which appeared on her 2007 album, <em>Kala<\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/mia-seventh-studio-album-mi7-release-1235548896\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new LP features seven songs written in seven countries, including Ethiopia, Egypt, and India M.I.A. has released her seventh studio LP, M.I.7, via&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":62677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}