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Safe Trip Home | 
| Artist: Dido
Label: Arista
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  57 reviews
Sales Rank: 55
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 730709
UPC: 886973070925
EAN: 0886973070925
ASIN: B001EO2UKO
Release Date: November 18, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | 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 |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
(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
Album Description
This package includes 4 Dido postcards.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 52 more reviews...
 Too little, too late... January 5, 2009
JA008
It's an OK album... I loved her second album "Life for Rent" but unfortunately this one is, as many of the other reviewers have written, it's a bit of a disappointment: too little, too late.
:-(
Lovely but not so Lovely December 30, 2008
Crabby Apple Mick Lee (INDIANAPOLIS, IN USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
At the risk of sounding shallow, I do not find SAFE TRIP HOME nearly as compelling and inventive as her second album, LIFE FOR RENT. As other reviewers have remarked, this album is a bit of a downer. To release a "downer" record, it needs to be truly great. The elements are here; but they fail to come together. LIFE FOR RENT is a song cycle of lost love that, for all its bitterness and sorrow, ended with the beautiful and hopeful "See The Sun". SAFE TRIP HOME is more about resignation with an absence of expectation. The album cover of an astronaut adrift in space alone outside the world just about says it all. Still, this is a good album. But for a Dido album, good is not good enough. Given the dismal state of much of contemporary music, we needed more.
 Will not disappoint -- buy this now December 30, 2008
vigil12 (Kirkland, WA United States)
I know for too often you were disappointed by your favorite artist's next release following the exquisite one you fell in love with.
This is not one of those albums. In fact, it may very well be Dido's best one so far. Wonderfully balanced and emotionally intense...
Buy it now. You'll thank me for it later.
Not much to get excited about December 28, 2008
Joseph P. Darak Jr. (Gallup, NM United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I know fans of musical artists give 5 stars to anything thier music heroes put out there and get upset when people give lower ratings. However for us more objective consumers this album lacks anything to rave about. It is slow, minimal, boring, depressing, a funeral procession. She should have mixed some uptempo songs into this melancholy slide into the sleep state. It is definately inferior to her first two albums. I gave it 3 stars because there still is that wonderful, comforting, velvet voice of hers that is worth alot by itself. About five of the songs are good and apreciated when played singularly. Only in a rare certain mood would a listen of the entire album be enjoyed. The last song ruins it the most for me. That 12 minute diddy is one of the worst songs I've ever heard. A person almost asleep could have played the drum part. Actually in this case its more of a drum kit whose batteries are almost dead. It's the exact same three drum hits for 12 minutes straight. Then at the end of the song we get nothing but those 3 drum notes for the last 15 seconds, as if we hadn't already had enough of that to pull our fingernails out. Somebody wrote that song and actually thought it was good enough to put on an album for mass consumption. Oh, that was Dido. Well, in the right somber mood you can enjoy some of the songs on this album so it gets 3 stars from me. I think I'm being a half star too generous though. Unless your a huge Dido fan I would be cautious before spending money on this one.
Moody, melodic, and meticulous December 28, 2008
Tommy Mulholland (Austin Texas)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As usual, Dido addresses the angst of love in life - from the sultry 'Burnin Love' to the acquiescence of settling down (and settling?) in 'Look No Further'. Dido has a message across the whole gamut of emotions, and uses her wonderful voice to accentuate the underlying mood.
The 'meticulous' is in reference to the very crisp instrumentation that is at times subtle, but always a key element in he songs. The lilt in 'lets do the things we normally do' in the midst of a somber farewell is especially notable. The sultry instrumentation in Burnin Love makes the simple (but tragic) lyrics come alive. Makes one want to meet the missing person for an intimate slow slow dance of love. Of course, who is coming to who is always an issue.
This is her best CD so far, as she continues to mature as a musician while also in the arena of life.
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