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Safe Trip Home - Dido
  • Band Name: Dido
  • Record Label: Arista
  • Release Date: Nov 18, 2008
Metascore
74 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
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  1. All Music Guide
    90
    There are melancholic edges, but it's not haunting, it's comforting, reassuring music that's quietly powerful, music that Dido hinted at before but never quite made.
  2. Q Magazine
    80
    Lucky, then she's so musically warm and, like its predecessors, Safe Trip Home takes comfort in a sound that almost masks her unrest. Almost. [Dec 2008, p.127]
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  3. Observer Music Monthly
    80
    This album is a mature and thoughtful collection of songs and a fine memorial to her father, who would have been right to be proud.
  4. Billboard
    80
    There isn't a standout single, but this is Dido's most fully realized and elegantly rendered collection.
  5. Boston Globe
    80
    It's taken nine years and two tries, but Dido has finally given her debut the follow-up it deserves.
  6. Entertainment Weekly
    75
    The emotion in these sad, subtle songs seems inherent enough, though you may still find yourself wishing she'd allowed the slightest hint of it to creep into her voice.
  7. Rolling Stone
    70
    Dido's voice is so comforting, you almost miss the blues it conceals.
  8. Sputnikmusic
    70
    It is an album that builds on everything she had done previously, but with a much more personal and mature touch than I ever expected from her.
  9. The A.V. Club
    67
    The album reveals nuances and feels richer with repeated plays, even though there's no single track that demands repeat listens. For songs that are just fine, they're great.
  10. Blender
    60
    Dido should let her socks go unsorted for a while; genuine sorrow sounds good on her.
  11. The Guardian
    60
    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 problem is Dido's soft voice: it's so lacking in expressiveness that words and emotions drift by, too wan to strike home.
  12. Slant Magazine
    60
    The album might be Dido's least adventurous to date, her brand of vanilla soul going down like a warm cup of milk.
  13. Drowned In Sound
    50
    If you come to Safe Trip Home without expecting the big hits or a surprise collaboration with a rapper, you'll be disappointed. If you're a Dido faithful who's just endured five years of hell, you'll find she's is still the perfect soundtrack to your life.
  14. Spin
    50
    Dido's third solo album reveals an unyielding fear of intimacy, her mellow trip-pop (coproduced by Jon Brion) buckling underneath sadness and alienation.
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User Score
8.1 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 24 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. bernlin2000
    9
    I continue to enjoy Dido's music, which is in some ways hasn't changed over the years, but has still matured. Her voice remains gorgeous and the music is personal and lovely.… Full Review »
  2. [Anonymous]
    10
    Mature and so refreshingly different to the sound most artistes are going for today.
  3. SpiderJon
    3
    It's well produced, certainly. But it's a well produced bland and dull album. "Safe" would be an adventurous description. Dido's voice sounds effortless. But it also sounds emotionless and completely unengaged, too. She could be singing the instructions for a Sanyo microwave or an account of unendurable human sorrow - it would be impossible to tell the difference… Full Review »
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