Labels:text | screenshot | black and white | black | font | document OCR: Indian tabla drums and beats that took English dancefloors by storm in the early '90s. And while singer Natacha Atlas's sub-continental crooning n sound great over deep bass-lines and pl grooves, here it is unfairly served by qu tionable production and artificial-sound synths. While songs like "Psycho Karaok a hefty tabla stomp named for the grou guitarist work fairly well, others don't. a "Chariots," for instance, the band inclu cheeky English rapper, with the tabla di and hip-hop beats, to comical effect. O the ambient Indian background noises do little to prevent Psychic Karaoke from coming off as wate down "world" trip-hop. I guess we should just be thankful TGU didn't attempt a jungle album. -Ben Klipstein
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