Dido - Safe Trip Home
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Artist: DidoBrand: Arista
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-11-18
Music Label: Arista
Soundtracks:
- don't believe in love
- quiet times
- never want to say it's love
- grafton street
- it comes and it goes
- look no further
- us 2 little gods
- the day before the day
- let's do the things we normally do
- burnin love
- northern skies
Free Music Notes for Safe Trip Home
Free Music Review: Melodic, Raw, Honest
Hit: 5 Stars
Dido's songs ring so true and captivate so easily despite how many times you've heard them, it's amazing to think it's been over five years since her last release. Her journey from new fresh face to mature songwriter continues as she takes another stylistic turn. Dido previously made some changes from debut to sophomore effort, using softer melodies and understated contentment to capture the listener. This time, she's gone even further down that road, utilizing live instrumentations in a way we haven't yet heard from her. The results are captivating and welcoming.
During these last few years, Dido lived in Los Angeles, took long drives through the desert, worked with various renowned producers and writers, and lost her father. The last event undoubtedly affected her writing most, and it was those producers that helped bring her creations to life in the most vibrant way. Jon Brion, Brian Eno, Citizen Cope and Rick Nowels all contributed to the making of the album, and Dido's ever-present brother Rollo made his own mark on several tracks. What's most exciting is Dido's progression as a writer and musician. She learned more about drums, guitar and even took classes to enhance her inherent skills.
"Safe Trip Home" sees Dido coming full circle. On the heartbreaking "Grafton Street", the albums grand opus and tribute to Dido's father, she plays the recorder, one of the first instruments she ever mastered. Dido wrote and recorded "Quiet Times" almost entirely on her own: The song includes her own drum and guitar playing. As always, Dido presents the most honest and real feelings through her songs, particularly on "It Comes and It Goes", a song in which she confesses there are moments of doubt in the midst of clarity. "Let's Do the Things We Normally Do" is a sneakily and ironically honest number in which Dido plays piano and asks to keep things simple and normal during the end of a relationship. The lead single "Don't Believe In Love" includes a groovy bassline and Dido's realization to let love in or let it die. She questions love again on "Never Want to Say It's Love", a laid back number with a moving chorus and Dido's pleasant hums scattered throughout. Speaking of hums, the track "Us 2 Little Gods" is full of them as the music lightly bounces along. "Look No Further" and "The Day Before the Day" are both sensitive and touching tracks without percussion, the former a softly inspirational tune and the latter a sad profession of loss. Citizen Cope contributed vocals and guitar on "Burnin Love": His rasp isn't an obvious compliment to Dido's pure voice, but it's surprisingly right. The closing "Northern Skies" shuffles along for nearly 9 minutes with a steady beat and memorable lyrics.
The album is quite a departure from Dido's previous work. But rest assured there are elements of familiarity. There are quite a few electronic blips and bleeps, and even some of the live brass and strings were programmed and altered to sound unique to the album. Though it's a softer album, "Safe Trip Home" has a quiet confidence and showcases a newfound maturity from Dido. Even the album cover, a photo of astronaut Bruce McCandless II performing the first untethered spacewalk over Earth, suggests Dido herself is reaching out and letting go of some things. It's as if she's settling down, coming back from a long journey through death and rebirth. Thankfully, even the painful songs are somehow inspiring.
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Dido's Safe Trip Home album was produced by Jon Brion (Kanye West, Fiona Apple), Rollo (Faithless, New Order) and Dido. This album's first single is 'Don't Believe In Love'. Propelled by the massive hit 'White Flag,' Life For Rent sold 8 million units worldwide, 2.1 million in the US. Dido is one of the world's best selling female artists of the new millennium, with only two studio albums and over 20 million in worldwide album sales. Dido's 2000 release No Angel has been certifi ed 4x Platinum in the US alone!(Amazon.co.uk Review) Safe Trip Home, the third album from singer-songwriter Dido, sees the chanteuse cook up a slightly different ambience than on previous albums No Angel (1999) and Life for Rent (2003). Though her signature elements remain in place--the limited, slightly cracked falsetto; the dreamy, comforting trip-hop vibe--there seems to be an extra density to Safe Trip Home, doubtless provoked by the loss of her father in 2006. The added weight is predominantly in the lyrics, which tend to focus on loss and heartache, but there's extra detail and depth in the musicianship too, since Dido has been busy honing her skills as a multi-instrumentalist. Despite the denser themes, the music still drifts by in classic Dido style, moving smoothly through the insouciant ?Don't Believe in Love", the aptly titled ?Quiet Times", and ?Never Want to Say It's Love", before arriving at the somber-yet-elegant six-minute standout ?Grafton Street", co-written with Brian Eno and featuring Mick Fleetwood on drums. The rest of the album unfurls in similarly sophicticated fashion, featuring the folkish ?Look No Further", the upbeat ?Us 2 Little Gods", and a nine-minute poetic closer called ?Northern Skies". Put simply, Safe Trip Home is Dido in superlative form. --Danny McKenna
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