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Dido - Safe Trip Home
- After two hit albums, Dido returns with her latest album, Safe Trip Home. The album captures Dido’s emotions after the passing of her father. Her album has a more organic feel than her previous albums, which had more electronic synthesizers and sounds.
There are only a few standout tracks on Safe Trip Home: “Grafton Street” and “It Comes and It Goes.” The wonderful six minute experience from “Grafton Street” is what the whole album should have been. The tempo is a great change from most of the songs and the flute is elegant. “It Comes and It Goes” is what the whole album should have been. It mixes a great drum beat with strings. The counter between her stark, somber voice and then the strong crescendo into the chorus is impressive. It’s almost a shame that the two tracks are back to back because they could have helped break the monotony of the other songs.
Although Dido’s songs are great, it seems as though all the songs are the same. The album was pushed back for months until it was released in November 2008 and there is no real answer as to why it was delayed. Many of the songs sound the same and deliver a similar message. “Look No Further” has an interesting crescendo of the strings, but without it, it sounds like “The Day Before the Day.” As much as “It Comes and It Goes” gets applauded for its up-tempo arrangement, “Us 2 Little Gods” is also up-tempo, but the story line of the lyrics aren’t as capturing and has an arrangement that doesn’t fit the strings and guitar of the other tracks.
There should be no deluxe edition of Dido’s album, having only 11 tracks (even with the last track that hovers the nine minute marker), Safe Trip Home should have automatically had the other four tracks added on. With all the delays, the four tracks should have been standard. There is no standard for the amount of tracks, but with the mix of slow and mid-tempo songs, Safe Trip Home could have benefitted from “For One Day” and “Summer” being added on and the tracks being shuffled around. By adding any of the bonuses, this album would have gained one point in the review scale.
Dido’s pleasant voice and crackly falsetto is still maintained in her latest album. Her lyrics are different this time around and it may alienate a few fans that liked her single woman-themed songs. Dido stays true to herself and her latest album shows maturity, but the delays and the short amount of tracks hinder this album from becoming memorable.
Reviewer: Michael Pascua
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Reviewer's Rating: 7.5
Reader's Rating: 9.33
Reader's Votes: 3
Added: 14-Dec-2008
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