User Score
Generally favorable reviews- based on 77 Ratings
User score distribution:
-
Positive: 64 out of 77
-
Mixed: 3 out of 77
-
Negative: 10 out of 77
Review this album
-
-
Please sign in or create an account before writing a review.
-
-
Submit
-
Check Spelling
- User score
- By date
- Most helpful
-
MattROct 1, 2003I loved her first CD, and this is more of the same, although not quite as good. She still has a knack for writing interesting songs about random events, although some are rather trite love songs. A good purchase for fans, although I doubt it'll have the impact her first album had.
-
-
raVenDec 7, 2003Enjoyable. Title track is really good. But since it in many ways resembles her first, don't expect any newness.
-
-
AlexOct 2, 2003Dido has produced absolutely the greatest and finest CD of 2003 with Life For Rent. Hit single White Flag is just the beginning of an album crammed to the brim with wonderful, atmospheric classic ballads like "Don't Leave Home" and "This Land Is Mine." Dido also experiments with dance and electronica on songs such as "Stoned" and "Sand In My Shoes." Highly recommended - buy it NOW!
-
-
MichaelHOct 4, 2003
-
-
johnbFeb 14, 2004
-
-
AnthonyFeb 22, 2004
-
-
BrandonOct 1, 2003i just picked it up and its great! i highly recommend anyone to get it...a nice evolution from her debut release, no angel.
-
-
RikkiBOct 13, 2003Magnifiek!
-
-
LucianoR.Jun 28, 2007Very nice! Girls use to enjoy ;-)
-
-
MicheleMOct 18, 2003Because she is the best singer in the world and her song is wounderfull.....bye from Caserta( Italy )
-
-
LunarNJun 11, 2004"Life for Rent" Follows all the formulas that her debut album follows, and this is the CD's greatest strength. If you liked Dido before this album, you will like her again here. Each song does its best to be different from the last, but the easy-going tunes often blend together nonetheless. Some songs will fall flat, but most will haunt you enough to listen to them quite a few times.
-
-
vicpMar 31, 2005i LOVE dido and this album!! it's music that goes right to your heart; she's real and down to earth and amazing!! (live its even better cos the band are awesome and dido is really lovely!!!) BUY IT NOW!!!!!
-
-
ixataDec 22, 2006is a good album, yes, but you kinda get bored after frequent lisyening... im looking forward for a new and fresh sounded follow up album and not a dull-in-time album... bt still, life for rent is a peaceful and a good record to put on when a war is over
-
-
JohnMNov 24, 2003Great, great, great!
-
-
LuisGJul 28, 2006
-
-
Jul 29, 2020
Awards & Rankings
-
Lacking its predecessor's edgy tone, Life For Rent offers up one bland, polite tune after another.
-
Its best moments suggest that Armstrong is unfairly maligned.... At worst, it's twee and bland, aural wallpaper that only someone who didn't really like music could care about. Either way, it isn't going to change anyone's mind about Dido.
-
MojoEasy listening with just enough unease to tease. [Nov 2003, p.125]