PYG + MIA = NO.

Lordy, lordy, lordy, why did Cokemachineglow have to go and ask local act Pale Young Gentlemen to cover a Top 40 hit? And why on Gaia's green earth did PYG decide it would be most apt for them to cover "Paper Planes"???

I like the band alright, especially their older, more freewheelin' material (see "Saturday Night").

Nevertheless: be forewarned.

“In the [original], M.I.A.’s voice is thin, hiding behind a lot of production and samples of gunshots, so we thought we’d go the other way and make it more organic, honest maybe,” Reisenauer explains.

(emphasis added)

Isthmus' Jessica Steinhoff lets these guys off the hook in her review--although the track may seem to "endow the song with a new story," that story is about as effective as a tribute to Do The Right Thing performed by Cirque du Soleil.