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Free Music Review: Beauty In Sadness
Hit: 4 Stars
Safe Trip Home is a different sound for Dido. If you are looking for the next CD as a logical progression from No Angel and Life For Rent, you will most likely be disappointed in Safe Trip Home. That is not to say that Safe Trip Home is a bad CD, but it sees Dido go in a different direction. Major life events often result in artistic changes, and Dido lost her father after completing Life For Rent. I believe that this at least partially accounts for the more somber and pensive tone that Safe Trip Home has in comparison to her previous work.
That being said, Safe Trip Home is not a mere sad lament to her father. Dido still tackles relationships in earnest, but her tone has changed. The opener "Don't Believe In Love" sees her in a more reserved and distrusting state than she was back on her first hit "Here With Me". The string arrangements add a layer to the sadness in her voice. The strings have this effect on "Quiet Times" too where Dido sings of loss, but this seems to be more directed toward another relationship gone bad than her father. This theme continues through "Never Want To Say It's Love" and "Grafton Street".
However, there are some brighter songs on Safe Trip Home. "Us 2 Little Gods" is a folk tune that almost seems out of place among the other songs, but think of it as more of an oasis. The most interesting song on Safe Trip Home is "Let's Do The Things We Normally Do". While it is generally somber as the majority of the others, Dido uses a rhythmic vocal delivery, and the synthesizer gives it an added ethereal sound. The winner of the "which one of these is not like the others" award, though, is "Northern Skies". The electronics are stiff an overdone. And while the song clocks in at just under nine minutes, there are nowhere near that many minutes of true music. If this were trimmed back and arranged differently, it would not stick out as a blemish on an otherwise excellent CD.
Overall, Safe Trip Home is a very good CD if you will allow for the change in style and mood. It will be interesting to see if this is a lasting change or a temporary diversion.
Download this: Quiet Times
Free Music Review: Another European Flair Singer Songwriter Delights Us
Hit: 4 Stars
I would say about 10 years a go I heard an Eminem track my son was blaring in the livingroom when suddenly a female vocalist sliced in and layed down such an interesting and musically different piece all of which made me sit bolt upright in my chair. Same reflex occured with me when Diana Krall made her debut on the Tonight Show years ago. Dido was the vocalist, Dido doing a bit on the rapper song is not unusual. Reverand Run has already convinced Sarah McLachlan to sing a similar infusion on that classic and baby boomer inability to forget masterpiece, Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin.We have all been on a guilt trip since Harry Chapin wrote that song. As an aside, being creative and innovative in writing hip hop and rap as the two gentleman have shown may be a saving grace as opposed to the thumping beat we are so used to. Back to Dido, she is an absolute wonderment. On this particular CD, although it is somewhat a downhead I enjoy Don't Believe in Love, Never Want to Say it's Love and Look No Further. Dido is all about style with a European flair. We seem to love that quality in the states. If you remember the immensely popular UK singer Dusty Springfield who was one of the few blue eyed soul
Caucasian recording artists who could attract virtually any fan from anywhere and produced a plethora of hits. The Son of a Preacher Man I remember as a monster. So Dido with charm in her accent and along with Lily Allen and Thea Gilmour are a continuance of the British Invasion,(I am sorry but I do not know Dido's exact nationality but her vocals appear to be British) it never really stopped. It's because we as Americans are perpetual Anglophiles and the UK seems to have a very special and genetic musical talent.
Jay Adler
Free Music Review: Peaceful journey
Hit: 4 Stars
With each of Dido's albums, she appeared to be becoming more and more obscure due to the public's evident waning interest in her work. Had it not been for a 2008 appearance on the Tonight Show, I wouldn't have even known she released an album that year. But I finally got around to listening to Safe Trip Home.
Dido's soft-but-sweet vocals haven't changed much, which makes it easy to pick out highlights like "Never Want to Say It's Love", "Burnin Love" and "Quiet Times". "Us 2 Little Gods" is also good even though she is yet another victim of the confusion of "us" and "we" (yeah, I know no one came here for an English lesson, but I couldn't help it). Anyway, "Don't Believe in Love" is another one of those cases where the lyrics don't look like much on paper, but it's all in the way she sings them.
I also wonder which version of the album I have because most outlets list the album as having eleven tracks but mine has fourteen. The three extra songs are "For One Day" (which is pretty okay), "Summer" (a highlight) and a remix of an earlier song on the album called "Northern Skies". And the latter is one of those remixes that doesn't sound much different from the original version -- in fact, it doesn't sound different at all (and the original is five minutes too long to begin with). Though Dido isn't getting as much attention as she used to (outside of this site, anyway), there's nothing but a comfortable ride to be had on this safe trip home.
Anthony Rupert
Free Music Review: Emotionally polarized to the album
Hit: 4 Stars
Let me start with that I'm a huge fan of Dido's. I have her two previous albums, two imports and branched out into Faithless because of her vocals. I love her song writing and her voice moves me.
With that said, I have a hard time entering into 'Safe Trip Home.' The problem is mine, I suspect. I'm at a happy point in my life. I'm getting ready to ask my girlfriend to marry me and things couldn't be better. I'm far removed from the emotional entry point of this CD.
I have listened to it once, all the way through and then put it on the shelf. I may listen to it again in a couple weeks (or months), but mainly, I'm holding on to it like an insurance policy. I would like it to be there in case grief strikes in the future. I know that may sound a little weird, but don't we all have albums that we turn to when we're feeling a certain way?
I guess I never thought Dido would headline my sorrow, sadness, and melancholy section. Alas, I am sorry for her loss.
...If you like Dido and want to continue to support her music, perhaps you could buy some of her other merchandise (the Dido Live DVD is awesome) if you don't want this album?
Free Music Review: Take Another Look
Hit: 4 Stars
Like other reviews, I was underwhelmed by Dido's third album, with the exception of her lead single and a few of the pop-sounding songs. But as I do with all new albums I purchase, I just let it spin for a few days without paying complete attention to it in order to get a true, concrete feel for the music. Thankfully I did, as Safe Trip Home is another Dido classic. Sure, it may be a bit more muted than Life For Rent and No Angel, but the touch of somberness and melancholy makes the music that much richer. Where before I sang along and bobbed my head absently to LFR and NA, the softer tone, which forced me to take a really good listen to the album, raised my awareness of the actual words much greater, and I now savor each morsel of lyric. A true masterpiece in a time where life can be loud, fast-paced and uncertain.
Stand-out tracks include: Never Want to Say It's Love; Grafton Street; It Comes and It Goes; Northern Skies; For One Day.