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Safe Trip Home: Deluxe Edition | 
| Manufacturer: Cheeky Records
Category: Digital Music Album
Buy New: $10.99
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 338
Genre: contemporary-folk-music
Media: MP3 Download
Running Time: 0 Minutes
ASIN: B001KO8AQ6
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Don't listen to her old songs first December 24, 2008
DB Cooper (usa)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The best tracks are good songs. I would give them a B+, until I listen to "Hunter" or "White Flag" or some of her really good older stuff. Then, these best tracks slip to C or C-. Still good and, at times, quite interesting, but not as good as her earlier work.
 A snooze so far November 20, 2008
CJ Sanders (Los Angeles)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's a real snooze so far, but I bet it will grow on me. She has such a gorgeous voice, it's too bad when the material doesn't measure up.
Hauntingly beautiful and emotional. November 18, 2008
the bomba (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Dido's previous two albums, "No Angel" (1999) and "Life For Rent" (2003), sold an astonishing 21 million copies in total.
Only her third album in nine years, "Safe Trip Home" somehow distils the essence of Dido even further.
Dido has been taking some time to mature, both musically and emotionally.
Where "Life For Rent" was a series of snapshots from the life of a newly single girl , "Safe Trip Home" is overwhelmingly coloured by the death at the end of 2006 of her father.
The renowned producer Jon Brion (who has worked extensively with Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple and Rufus Wainwright), and her brother and long-time collaborator co-producer Rollo Armstrong know how to make the most of a distinctive vocal talent.
On first acquaintance, it is almost sombre, such is the understatement of her arrangements.
She has reined back on the electronics, with more real instrumentation. Even with a band playing silkily syncopated grooves, often underpinned by lush orchestration, the overall effect is one of quiet stillness.
Her musical palette may have embraced the soft sounds of ambient electronics and the flowing melodiousness of folk, but she has a real gift for conveying simple, emotional truth with deceptively artful songs and the touching purity of her gentle, aching vocals.
Her songs are about everyday experiences and relationships. These mostly deal with loss: of lovers, of time, of a more hopeful younger self, and also of Dido's father, who died in 2006.
It's potentially affecting stuff, and the gentleness of the production - several songs sound as though they were recorded by candlelight - heightens the atmosphere of desolation and fragility.
The album, as you'd expect, stays to her tried and tested formula of minimalism, ennui and trademark pathos - from the opening emptiness of "Don't Believe In Love" to the brooding closer of "Northern Skies" - driven by a club-heavy bass line, and adorned with bubbly keyboard trills - there's barely a chink of smiling light to be found in the dark opus.
The outstanding song of the album is the piercingly beautiful, Celtic-flavoured "Grafton Street", a six-minute hymn to loss co-written with Brian Eno and featuring Mick Fleetwood on drums. Listen to it once and it will catch at your heart as a wrenching lament for a lover who will not return.
The deceptively relaxed 'Burnin' Love' sets Dido's delicate tones against the warm, crackling vocal of Citizen Cope, a Brooklyn-based guitarist, DJ and keyboard player, bringing the best out of an affecting melody.
On "Look No Further", she lays out the credentials that have endeared her to so many - spurning the high life that's surely within her grasp, she conjures a classically-cushioned, mellow beat-driven vision of hearth and home.
Most affecting is "Let's Do The Things We Normally Do", "from your rebel songs sung out of tune, so my hand held longer than you need to".
It is simply as fond as farewells can get.
Dido plays keyboards, drums and/or guitar on most of the tracks.
My favourite tracks: "Let's Do The Things We Normally Do", "Burnin' Love", "Grafton Street", and "Northern Skies", co-written with Rollo.
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