| Album 4 ***** |
Tai's albums usually open with a big tune, drenched with pathos, which ensures the disc starts with a bang. Song jai ma glai chit is the closest we get here. It's a typical Tai ballad of a poor working girl and her family trying to get by, but which lacks some of the impact of her other big songs and has nothing that marks it out as really special. |  |
| Album 3 ***** |
Tai calls this her "chut Isan", and while the difference is in touches rather than a wholesale makeover, album 3 is a great improvement on 1 and 2. There's more musical variety and the up-tempo numbers are more successful than before, though there are no individual tracks as fine as the best of Yuu Nai Jai Samue... |  |
| Yuu Nai Jai Samue ***** |
Yuu Nai Jai Samue is Tai at her best and worst. The stand-out track is the second: Wan Ti Baw Me Ai. This is as good as luk tung gets: it has a surging chorus at its centre, well-balanced by a steady treading rhythm in the verses. Upward tweaks at the end of the vocal lines are paired with downward shifts ending the instrumental phrases...... |  |